| Description |
xii, 281 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Women's Wars of the Revolution -- "The First Incendiary": A Female Firebrand and the New York City Fire of 1776 / Benjamin L. Carp -- "I Bare My Bosom, and Pour My Choicest Blood": Republican Sisterhood and Political Violence in Mercy Otis Warren's Adulateur / J. Patrick Mullins -- War Women of the Eastern Woodlands / Barbara Alice Mann -- "A Shocking Thing to Tell Of": Female Civilians, Violence, and Rape under British Military Rule / Lauren Duval -- Neighbors, Land Ladies, and Consorts: New Jersey Women in the Midst of the Continental Army / Steven Elliott -- Betsey Loring: Investigating a Woman's Infamy in the American Revolution / Sean M. Heuvel -- Killed, Imprisoned, Struck by Lightning: Soldiers' Wives on Campaign with the British Army / Don N. Hagist -- Catharine Greene's War for Independence / Martha J. King -- Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Female Fortitude and the Revolutionary War / Lorri Glover -- A Black Loyalist's Liberty: How Lucy Banbury Took Back Her Freedom / Carin Bloom -- In Reduced Circumstances: Loyalist Women and British Government Assistance, 1779-1783 / Todd W. Braisted -- Complicated Allegiances: Women, Politics, and Property in Post-Occupation Charleston / Jacqueline Beatty -- The "Widowed State": Women's Labor, Sacrifice, and Self-Sufficiency in the American Revolution / Alisa Wade. |
| Summary |
"These essays examine women's varying roles during the War for Independence"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"This collection examines the impact of Revolutionary-era women on the outcomes of the war and its subsequent narrative tradition, from popular perception to academic treatment. The contributors show how women navigated a country at war, directly affected the war's result, and influenced the foundational historical record left in its wake. Engaging directly with that record, this volume's authors demonstrate the ways that the Revolution transformed women's place in America as it offered new opportunities but also imposed new limitations in the brave new world they helped create." -- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women.
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United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Participation, Female.
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Military participation -- Female.
(OCoLC)fst01353719
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
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| Chronological Term |
1775-1783
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Mayer, Holly A. (Holly Ann), 1956- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Women waging war in the American Revolution [Charlottesville, Virginia] : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813948287 (DLC) 2022011412 |
| ISBN |
9780813948270 (hardcover) |
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0813948274 (hardcover) |
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