To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

by Joan R. Gundersen

Book Overview

Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R. Gundersen provides a synthesis of the scholarship on women's experiences during the era as well as a nuanced understanding that moves beyond a view of the war as either a "golden age" or a disaster for women. Gundersen argues that women's lives varied greatly depending on race and class, but all women had to work within shifting parameters that enabled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856975
• ISBN13: 9780807856970
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"