Liberty's daughters
Subtitle: the revolutionary experience of American women, 1750-1800 : with a new preface
By: Mary Beth Norton.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801483479
Subjects: Women -- United States -- History -- Sources; Women in politics -- United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Women -- Sources
Genres: Sources.
Description: First published in 1980, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution. This fascinating human story includes lively anecdotes and revealing details from the personal papers of 450 eighteenth-century families. - Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-374) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The constant patterns of women's lives.; title: The small circle of domestic concerns; title: he important crisis upon which our fate depends; title: Fair flowers if rightly cultivated; title: In what would you shew your activity?; title: As independent as circumstances will admit; title: Part two : The changing patterns of women's lives.; title: We commenced perfect statesmen; title: Necessity taught us; title: A reverence of self; title: Vindicating the equality of female intellect; title: Conclusion : A new era of female history