Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-214) and index.
Contents:
Female captivity, royal authority, and male identity in colonial New England, 1682-1707 -- The sovereignty and goodness of God in 1682 : Mary Rowlandson's narrative and the "fathers'" defense -- Deference and difference : female captivity and male ambivalence -- The uses of female humiliation : Judea Capta, Hannah Dustan, and Hannah Swarton in the 1690s -- Hannah Dustan's bodies : domestic violence and third-generation male identity in Cotton Mather's Decennium luctuosum -- Returning to Zion : cultural competition and John Williams's The redeemed captive -- The seduction of the "father(s)" -- Coda : Dux faemina facta/dux faemina facti.
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