Loosening the bonds : Mid-Atlantic farm women, 1750-1850
"This book--the first to investigate the rich and complex lives of rural women during this period--focuses on women in the Philadelphia hinterland and shows how they became an essential part of that area's rise to agricultural prominence." The author concludes that "rural women in the mid-Atlantic region decreased patriarchal power within the family, became active shapers of the process of commercialization and economic development, and carved out new roles for themselves in public life--providing the base for the development of the feminist movement in the antebellum era"--Jacket
History
xv, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780300033663, 9780300042658, 0300033664, 0300042655
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The household. Culture on the Brandywine ; Reproducing the farm family ; Farm household labor ; The social geography of dependency
The marketplace. The economics of the butter trade ; Churns and butter-making technology ; Rural domestic economy ; Esther Lewis : biography of a farm woman
The public sphere. "Centre then, O my soul" : ministering mothers ; "Not only ours but others" : teaching daughters ; "True earnest workers" : reforming sisters
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