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Roger Thompson, Sex in Middlesex: Popular Mores in a Massachusetts County, 1649-1699. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1986. Pp. xix, 252. $30.00 (ISBN: 0-87023-516-8).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2011

Cornelia Hughes Dayton
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Law and History Review , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , Spring 1988 , pp. 204 - 206
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Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 1988

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1. On parental supervision of courtship, see Rothman, Ellen K., Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America (New York, 1984) 24–30Google Scholar. For evidence of a growing trend to prosecute and punish women more severely than men for fornication, see Karlsen, Carol F., “The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: The Witch in Seventeenth-Century New England,” Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1980, 330–42Google Scholar.