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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810740003321

Autore

Kerber Linda K.

Titolo

Women of the Republic : intellect and ideology in Revolutionary America / / Linda K. Kerber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 1980

©1980

ISBN

979-88-908685-3-4

0-8078-9984-4

1-4696-0741-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Women - United States - History

United States History Revolution, 1775-1783

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: The Women's World of the Early Republic; 1. ""EMPIRE OF COMPLACENCY"": The Inheritance of the Enlightenment; 2. ""WOMEN INVITED TO WAR"": Sacrifice and Survival; 3. ""WHAT HAVE I TO DO WITH POLITICKS?"": The Meaning of Female Patriotism; 4. ""SHE CAN HAVE NO WILL DIFFERENT FROM HIS"": Revolutionary Loyalties of Married Women; 5. ""DISABILITIES . . . INTENDED FOR HER PROTECTION'': The Anti-Republican Implications of Coverture; 6. ""DOMESTIC LIBERTY"": Freedom to Divorce; 7. ""WHY SHOULD GIRLS BE LEARND OR WISE?"": Education and Intellect in the Early Republic

8. ""WE OWN THAT LADIES SOMETIMES READ"": Women's Reading in the Early Republic9. THE REPUBLICAN MOTHER: Female Political Imagination in the Early Republic; NOTE ON SOURCES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y