Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America
The two big questions
Part I Constants
Work housewives
Work housewives poultry, dairy, garden, slaughterhouse, textile manufacture… and “deputy husband”
Marriage - Married women’s legal status -Subtle subversion -the rise of companionate marriage -pregnant brides - “my dear child”
Kids -5 to 10 pregnancies -childbirth -kids’ names
-enslaved mothers -did parents love infants less?
Part II What difference did the revolution make?
Women in politics -boycotters -politicians -community organizers -voters (only unmarried New Jerseyans) -the backlash
Women at war -rape victims -“deputy husbands”
Republican motherhood
Conclusion