Berkin at the time that this text was published was a professor of history at Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center as well authored and edited other academic texts. This book was published around the same time as Kathleen M. Brown's (listed below) and while they do discuss similar topics, each brings new information to the theme. She begins her text in the Chesapeake area, where she focuses on the difference between those in the area rather than the similarities to the English- other authors typically focus on the colonial women and their "Englishness." She seeks to study colonial women from a feminist perspective. She utilizes Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's text (listed below) for her text. Berkin is also the first author to address the term
