Books by Martha Saxton and Complete Book Reviews

BEING GOOD: Women's Moral Values in Early America
BEING GOOD: Women's Moral Values in Early America
Martha Saxton, Author . Hill and Wang $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-11011-6
A massive accumulation of detail earns Saxton the right to state her conclusion succinctly: fetishizing female chastity has been "one of the most enduring hindrances to women's equality." In this exhaustive and entertaining work, Saxton (
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Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
Martha Saxton, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $32 (428p) ISBN 978-0-374-52460-9
Columbia professor Saxton's 1977 biography of pioneering feminist and enduring novelist Alcott includes a new introduction by the author. (Sept.)
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The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington
Martha Saxton. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9701-2
Saxton (Being Good: Women’s Moral Values in Early America), a professor of history at Amherst, serves up an accessible and vivid exploration of the life of George Washington’s mother. Her perspective is sympathetic without ignoring Washington’s...
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