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In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the home, the charismatic Hutchinson wielded remarkable political power. Her unconventional ideas had attracted a following of prominent citizens eager for social reform. Hutchinson
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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Chronicles the author's attempts to keep the Catholic Church from granting her former husband, Congressman Joseph Kennedy, an annulment of their twelve-year marriage; discussing the experiences of other women who have struggled with this issue, and looking at the uses and frequency of annulment in the U.S.
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