Women In The American Revolution

Author : Barbara B. Oberg
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813942605

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Women in the American Revolution by Barbara B. Oberg Pdf

Building on a quarter century of scholarship following the publication of the groundbreaking Women in the Age of the American Revolution, the engagingly written essays in this volume offer an updated answer to the question, What was life like for women in the era of the American Revolution? The contributors examine how women dealt with years of armed conflict and carried on their daily lives, exploring factors such as age, race, educational background, marital status, social class, and region. For patriot women the Revolution created opportunities—to market goods, find a new social status within the community, or gain power in the family. Those who remained loyal to the Crown, however, often saw their lives diminished—their property confiscated, their businesses failed, or their sense of security shattered. Some essays focus on individuals (Sarah Bache, Phillis Wheatley), while others address the impact of war on social or commercial interactions between men and women. Patriot women in occupied Boston fell in love with and married British soldiers; in Philadelphia women mobilized support for nonimportation; and in several major colonial cities wives took over the family business while their husbands fought. Together, these essays recover what the Revolution meant to and for women.

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307427496

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Revolutionary Mothers by Carol Berkin Pdf

A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence—for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this book, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict. The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.

Author : Cokie Roberts
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061867460

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Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts Pdf

Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families -- and their country -- proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women -- and their sometimes very public activities -- was intelligent and pervasive. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might never have survived. Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the drive, determination, creative insight, and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Roberts proves beyond a doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity, and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances and carry on.

Author : Linda K. Kerber
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807899847

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Women of the Republic by Linda K. Kerber Pdf

Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right. Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice? When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not.

Author : Jeanne Munn Bracken
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : United States
ISBN : 9781932663235

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Women in the American Revolution by Jeanne Munn Bracken Pdf

An anthology of letters, journals, eyewitness accounts, poetry, and illustrations which provide insight into the role of women on both sides of the American Revolution.

Author : Susan Casey
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613745861

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Women Heroes of the American Revolution by Susan Casey Pdf

When you think of the American Revolution, perhaps you envision the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's infamous ride, or George Washington crossing the Delaware River. But there are many other, lesser-known stories of the war that engulfed women's lives as it did the lives of their fathers, husbands, and sons. Some women served as spies, nurses, and water carriers; some helped as fundraisers, writers, and couriers; and still others functioned as resistors, rescuers, and—surprisingly—even soldiers. Most often, their names did not make it into history books. In Women Heroes of the American Revolution, these fascinating women step into the spotlight they deserve. You'll learn about such brave rebels as Martha Bratton, who blew up a supply of gunpowder to keep it out of the hands of approaching British troops and boldly claimed, "It was I who did it!"; 16-year-old Sybil Ludington, who rode her horse Star twice as far as the legendary Paul revere did in order to help her father, Colonel Ludington, muster his scattered troops to fight the British; and Deborah Sampson Gannett, who bound her chest, dressed as a man, enlisted in the Continental Army as Robert Shurtliff, and served undetected for three years alongside her fellow soldiers. These and 17 other inspiring stories of women and girls contributing to our nation's independence are recounted through energetic narrative and revealing letters and documents that allow us to hear the voices of the women themselves and those who knew and admired them.

Author : Karen Zeinert
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1562946579

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Those Remarkable Women of the American Revolution by Karen Zeinert Pdf

Examines the contributions of women, Patriot and Loyalist, to the American Revolution, on the battlefield, in the press, and in the political arena, and shows how they challenged traditional female roles

Author : Rosemarie Zagarri
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205558

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Revolutionary Backlash by Rosemarie Zagarri Pdf

The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson. Although the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male electoral activities. Federalists and Jeffersonians vied for women's allegiance and sought their support in times of national crisis. Women, in turn, attended rallies, organized political activities, and voiced their opinions on the issues of the day. After the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a widespread debate about the nature of women's rights ensued. The state of New Jersey attempted a bold experiment: for a brief time, women there voted on the same terms as men. Yet as Rosemarie Zagarri argues in Revolutionary Backlash, this opening for women soon closed. By 1828, women's politicization was seen more as a liability than as a strength, contributing to a divisive political climate that repeatedly brought the country to the brink of civil war. The increasing sophistication of party organizations and triumph of universal suffrage for white males marginalized those who could not vote, especially women. Yet all was not lost. Women had already begun to participate in charitable movements, benevolent societies, and social reform organizations. Through these organizations, women found another way to practice politics.

Author : Sudie Doggett Wike
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476630878

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Women in the American Revolution by Sudie Doggett Wike Pdf

Without the support of American women, victory in the Revolutionary War would not have been possible. They followed the Continental Army, handling a range of jobs that were usually performed by men. On the orders of General Washington, some were hired as nurses for $2 per month and one full ration per day--disease was rampant and nurse mortality was high. A few served with artillery units or masqueraded as men to fight in the ranks. The author focuses on the many key roles women filled in the struggle for independence, from farming to making saltpeter to spying.

Author : William Henry Egle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Pennsylvania
ISBN : NYPL:33433081789939

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Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution by William Henry Egle Pdf

Author : Elizabeth F. Ellet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : United States
ISBN : BL:A0022705659

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The Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth F. Ellet Pdf

Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831543

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Running from Bondage by Karen Cook Bell Pdf

A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

Author : Elizabeth Fries Ellet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : United States
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5DFN

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The Women of the American Revolution by Elizabeth Fries Ellet Pdf

Author : Brianna Hall
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781515729921

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Great Women of the American Revolution by Brianna Hall Pdf

Men may have fought the battles of the American Revolution, but women played an important part too. Some women fought the battle at home, speaking their minds about the British occupation or gathering supplies for their soldiers. Others fought openly for their cause, secretly joining the military or becoming spies. Get to know these heroic women and their importance to the colonists' victory during the Revolutionary War.

Author : Charles Eugene Claghorn
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015022019643

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Women Patriots of the American Revolution by Charles Eugene Claghorn Pdf

Biographies of 600 women who performed patriotic acts.