Title: Loosening the Bonds
First published: 1986
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.
Subjects: History, Women in public life, Rural conditions, Women in agriculture, Rural women, India, emigration and immigration, United states, emigration and immigration, Farm life
Places: Middle Atlantic States
LC classification: HQ1438.A12 J46 1986