Common Whores, Vertuous Women, and Loveing Wives takes a revisionist approach to the study of women and religion in colonial Maryland and adds considerably to our understanding of the social and cultural importance of religion in early America.

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.Maryland's Raison d'étre
2.Private Lives
3.Religion in the New World
4.Women and Religion
5.Religion, Property, and the Family
6.Free Will Christian Women's Public Authority
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index

Debra Meyers is Assistant Professor of History at Northern Kentucky University and co-editor of Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds.