{"title":"Gracious Disciples and Frightened Magistrates","authors":"Marilyn J. Westerkamp","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197506905.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197506905.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins with the Quakers in England, the appeal of the Quaker movement in New England, including Hutchinson's followers, and the threat that Quakers posed to the New England magistracy. It examines Hutchinson’s followers in some detail, but the Quaker/ Magistrate conflict is central to the chapter. The response of the governors and clerics mirrored so completely the official responses to the Hutchinsonians that the Quaker crisis becomes a venue through which the same social, political, and ideological issues are encountered and resolved. This is less a second-generation event than the last gasp of the founding generation.","PeriodicalId":274222,"journal":{"name":"The Passion of Anne Hutchinson","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122516238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Helpmeets, Mothers, and Midwives among the Patriarchs","authors":"Marilyn J. Westerkamp","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197506905.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197506905.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews old and New England society and culture, emphasizing the patriarchy that governed women’s lives. Following a general discussion of the model of household structure, the chapter addresses the social, legal, and political realities of women’s lives along with the cultural construction of women, biologically, socially, and intellectually. The chapter explores the ideological constructions of gender from, as far as possible, both a male and female perspective. The chapter also discusses the distinct women’s community, including not only women’s labor and friendship networks, but also the centrality of the reproductive community: woman as healer, midwife, and reproducer. Throughout, the chapter places the control exercised through law, custom, and prescription against the power women discovered within the female community.","PeriodicalId":274222,"journal":{"name":"The Passion of Anne Hutchinson","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129121860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Puritan Experiment","authors":"Marilyn J. Westerkamp","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780197506905.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780197506905.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the social and political background of English Puritanism and New England’s colonization, 1590–1645, through the lens of Hutchinson’s life and experience. It begins with Puritan politics in England (partly through the problematic career of Hutchinson’s father Francis Marbury), rising political and religious discontent, and the decision of many to emigrate. The chapter then explores the first fifteen years of Massachusetts’s history, emphasizing Winthrop’s personal political battles, church politics, and the colony's social divisions. The chapter analyzes this socio/economic/political world as a world of men, acknowledging that much of the Hutchinsonian crisis can be seen as a power battle among men. However, in this world Hutchinson played a dominant “male” role, faction leader, and while many have argued that she was treated like any male disrupter, in fact she was not. The chapter ends with the attacks upon her usurpation.","PeriodicalId":274222,"journal":{"name":"The Passion of Anne Hutchinson","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127064808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}