1. Women in Colonial and Revolutionary America

2. The two big questions

4. Part I Constants

5. Work housewives

6. Work housewives poultry, dairy, garden, slaughterhouse, textile manufacture… and “deputy husband”

7. Marriage - Married women’s legal status -Subtle subversion -the rise of companionate marriage -pregnant brides - “my dear child”

8. Kids -5 to 10 pregnancies -childbirth -kids’ names

9. -enslaved mothers -did parents love infants less?

10. Part II What difference did the revolution make?

11. Women in politics -boycotters -politicians -community organizers -voters (only unmarried New Jerseyans) -the backlash

15. Women at war -rape victims -“deputy husbands”

16. Republican motherhood

18. Conclusion