To Be Useful to the World
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To Be Useful to the World

Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

Joan R. Gundersen

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To Be Useful to the World

Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

Joan R. Gundersen

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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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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Year
2006
ISBN
9780807877159
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. To Be Useful to the World Women in Revolutionary America, 1740–1790
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Preface to the 1996 Edition
  8. Chapter One: The Worlds of Their Mothers
  9. Chapter Two: Women on the Move
  10. Chapter Three: The Silken Cord
  11. Chapter Four: Mistress and Servant
  12. Chapter Five: Dutiful Daughters and Independent Minds
  13. Chapter Six: Sisters of the Spirit
  14. Chapter Seven: An Injurious and Ill Judging World
  15. Chapter Eight: The Garden Within
  16. Chapter Nine: Daughters of Liberty
  17. Chapter Ten: Mothers of the Republic
  18. Essay on the Sources
  19. Notes
  20. Index