To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790Univ 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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Pagina 9
... society. Similarly, the presence of William in the Franklin household did not cause major scandal. Despite laws against fornication, bastardy, and adultery, many colonial couples married after the birth of children, especially on the ...
... society. Similarly, the presence of William in the Franklin household did not cause major scandal. Despite laws against fornication, bastardy, and adultery, many colonial couples married after the birth of children, especially on the ...
Pagina 14
... Margaret's husband Lykas was a late casualty of that war. Nothing better symbolizes the intersection of two worlds in Margaret's life than her name. Surnames in European society identified paternal 14) The Worlds of Their Mothers.
... Margaret's husband Lykas was a late casualty of that war. Nothing better symbolizes the intersection of two worlds in Margaret's life than her name. Surnames in European society identified paternal 14) The Worlds of Their Mothers.
Pagina 15
... society identified paternal kin. First names tied European colonists to maternal and paternal kin. For Mohawks, membership in a clan determined kinship. Mohawk names represented events or attributes. The British records provide no clue ...
... society identified paternal kin. First names tied European colonists to maternal and paternal kin. For Mohawks, membership in a clan determined kinship. Mohawk names represented events or attributes. The British records provide no clue ...
Pagina 17
... society in constant motion. Women took part in all forms of travel: seasonal moves as part of a work cycle; family, church, and business visits; immigration or migration to the frontier or to cities. War, along with political and ...
... society in constant motion. Women took part in all forms of travel: seasonal moves as part of a work cycle; family, church, and business visits; immigration or migration to the frontier or to cities. War, along with political and ...
Pagina 18
... society.∞ The Franklin, Porter, and Brant households illustrate the types of physical mobility that an eighteenth-century woman might experience. Deborah Franklin seems never to have left Philadelphia, but that does not mean she ...
... society.∞ The Franklin, Porter, and Brant households illustrate the types of physical mobility that an eighteenth-century woman might experience. Deborah Franklin seems never to have left Philadelphia, but that does not mean she ...
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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 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.