Women in the American Revolution : gender, politics, and the domestic world / edited by Barbara B. Oberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oberg, Barbara, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity.

History.

Women.

Social conditions.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Women.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Biography.

Women--United States--Social conditions--18th century.

Women--Political activity--United States--History--18th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 264 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The labors of enslaved midwives in revolutionary Virginia / Sara Collini

"Until liberty of importation is allowed": milliners and mantuamakers in the Chesapeake on the eve of revolution / Kaylan M. Stevenson

Marketing medicine: apothecary Elizabeth Weed's economic independence during the American Revolution / Susan Hanket Brandt

"She did not open her mouth further": Haudenosaunee women as military and political targets during and after the American Revolution / Maeve Kane

"A lady of New Jersey": Annis Boudinot Stockton, patriot and poet in an age of revolution / Martha J. King

"As if I had been a very great somebody": Martha Washington's revolution / Mary V. Thompson

Women's politics, antislavery politics, and Phillis Wheatley's American Revolution / David Waldstreicher

"What am I but an American?": Mary Willing Byrd and Westover Plantation during the American Revolution / Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch

Intimate ties and the Boston Massacre / Serena R. Zabin

Left behind: loyalist women in Philadelphia during the American Revolution / Kimberly Nath

Deborah Logan's marriage, 1781-1824 / C. Dallett Hemphill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813942605

0813942608

Publisher Number:

40029145231

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.