To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 8 dec 2006 - 344 pagina's
Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women. Gundersen argues that women's lives varied greatly depending on race and class, but all women had to work within shifting parameters that enabled opportunities for some while constraining opportunities for others.

Three generations of women in three households personalize these changes: Elizabeth Dutoy Porter, member of the small-planter class whose Virginia household included an African American enslaved woman named Peg; Deborah Franklin, common-law wife of the prosperous revolutionary, Benjamin; and Margaret Brant, matriarch of a prominent Mohawk family who sided with the British during the war. This edition incorporates substantial revisions in the text and the notes to take into account the scholarship that has appeared since the book's original publication in 1996.

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1 The Worlds of Their Mothers
1
2 Women on the Move
17
3 The Silken Cord
45
4 Mistress and Servant
67
5 Dutiful Daughters and Independent Minds
89
6 Sisters of the Spirit
109
7 An Injurious and Ill Judging World
133
8 The Garden Within
153
9 Daughters of Liberty
173
10 Mothers of the Republic
201
Essay on the Sources
219
Notes
237
Index
315
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Pagina 262 - John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985), 277-294; Jack P.
Pagina 308 - The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady; whose life and character are peculiarly distinguished — being a continental soldier, for nearly three years, in the late American war.

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Joan R. Gundersen is research scholar in women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh and professor emeritus of history at California State University, San Marcos. She is author or coauthor of four other books, including The Anglican Ministry in Virginia, 1723-1776: A Study of a Social Class.

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