{"product_id":"women-of-the-republic-intellect-and-ideology-in-revolutionary-america-9780807846322","title":"Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America","description":"\u003ci\u003eWomen of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The women of the army toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government, wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of Republican Motherhood is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda K. Kerber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and University of North C\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/26\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807846322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKerber, Linda K.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eU.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci\u003eToward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and University of North C","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40265602596979,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4ca72cf4-56e0-40b5-b647-3b7c43476e36.jpg?v=1657721561","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/women-of-the-republic-intellect-and-ideology-in-revolutionary-america-9780807846322","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}