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 xiii
... female—all encountered a world both old and new at the same time. The colonies di√ered in climate, geography, length of experience within the empire, and density of American Indian population. Each colony had a unique mix of ethnic ...
... female—all encountered a world both old and new at the same time. The colonies di√ered in climate, geography, length of experience within the empire, and density of American Indian population. Each colony had a unique mix of ethnic ...
Pagina 13
... female lines. Households formed around female kin. Under Iroquois traditions, women controlled their village fields. While men might clear stumps from fields, women, children, and men too old for the hunt worked together on planting ...
... female lines. Households formed around female kin. Under Iroquois traditions, women controlled their village fields. While men might clear stumps from fields, women, children, and men too old for the hunt worked together on planting ...
Pagina 17
... female events such as childbearing and weaning. Outnumbered by men in most kinds of travel, women were more likely to be involuntary migrants, were at greater risk sexually than men, and were more likely to be part of a family group ...
... female events such as childbearing and weaning. Outnumbered by men in most kinds of travel, women were more likely to be involuntary migrants, were at greater risk sexually than men, and were more likely to be part of a family group ...
Pagina 21
... female servants, employing them in household work, such as gardening, dairying, washing, and cooking. Quakers, trying to avoid owning slaves, shifted to servants after 1750. Even so, the supply of female servants exceeded the demand ...
... female servants, employing them in household work, such as gardening, dairying, washing, and cooking. Quakers, trying to avoid owning slaves, shifted to servants after 1750. Even so, the supply of female servants exceeded the demand ...
Pagina 22
... female servants in 1772 alone. Married servants placed economic necessity and social norms at odds. Despite a 1765 Pennsylvania law forbidding the separation of married servants, couples often were separated.∞Ω Many runaway servants ...
... female servants in 1772 alone. Married servants placed economic necessity and social norms at odds. Despite a 1765 Pennsylvania law forbidding the separation of married servants, couples often were separated.∞Ω Many runaway servants ...
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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.