Loosening the bonds
Subtitle: Mid-Atlantic farm women, 1750-1850
By: Joan M. Jensen.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Rural women -- Middle Atlantic States -- History.; Women in agriculture -- Middle Atlantic States -- History.; Women in public life -- Middle Atlantic States -- History.; Middle Atlantic States -- Rural conditions.
Description: "This book--the first to investigate the rich and complex lives of rural women during this period--focuses on women in the Philadelphia hinterland and shows how they became an essential part of that area's rise to agricultural prominence." The author concludes that "rural women in the mid-Atlantic region decreased patriarchal power within the family, became active shapers of the process of commercialization and economic development, and carved out new roles for themselves in public life--providing the base for the development of the feminist movement in the antebellum era"--Book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 231-263.
Includes index.