N.B. Read over these questions before reading the chapters and answering the questions. Note down the various pages where you found the information you used to answer them. Ulrich, Chapter One, August 1787, “Exceeding Dangerously ill” 1. Describe the occupations of a female “midwife.” 2. Describe the occupations of a male “physician.” 3. Why does Ulrich describe the midwife’s and not the doctor’s practice as social medicine? Ulrich, Chapter Two September 1788, “warpt a piece” 4. Define and describe the independent “female-managed” and the “male-managed” economies in the Ballard household and how they worked together to produce the “family economy” of that particular household 5. Explain how Martha’s female trade (like Ephraim’s) was interwoven with the mercantile economy and with the “family economies” of other households at that time and place. 6. Why do we know more about male trade than about female trade? Eirlys M. Barker, “Native America Women–From Princesses to Wenches” 1. How did Native American marriage customs and attitudes toward sexual relations give Native women power and flexibility? What customs did the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe represent? 2. What clan practices gave women importance in Native American society? 3. Describe the Indians’ conception of property and matrilineal inheritance system. How were they different from European customs and beliefs? Ulrich and Barker 4. Compare Native American women’s occupational options and importance to those of colonial American women.