Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America by Linda K. Kerber

Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diairies, 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?

Linda K. Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is coeditor of U.S. History as Womens History: New Feminist Essays and author of Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays by Linda K. Kerber.

1997; Softcover; 318 pages.
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