Women waging war in the American Revolution [electronic resource] / edited by Holly A. Mayer.
"These essays examine women's varying roles during the War for Independence"--
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Charlottesville :
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2022.
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
Contents:
- Introduction: Women's Wars of the Revolution
- "The First Incendiary": A Female Firebrand and the New York City Fire of 1776 / Benjamin L. Carp
- "I Bare My Bosom, and Pour My Choicest Blood": Republican Sisterhood and Political Violence in Mercy Otis Warren's Adulateur / J. Patrick Mullins
- War Women of the Eastern Woodlands / Barbara Alice Mann
- "A Shocking Thing to Tell Of": Female Civilians, Violence, and Rape under British Military Rule / Lauren Duval
- Neighbors, Land Ladies, and Consorts: New Jersey Women in the Midst of the Continental Army / Steven Elliott
- Betsey Loring: Investigating a Woman's Infamy in the American Revolution / Sean M. Heuvel
- Killed, Imprisoned, Struck by Lightning: Soldiers' Wives on Campaign with the British Army / Don N. Hagist
- Catharine Greene's War for Independence / Martha J. King
- Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Female Fortitude and the Revolutionary War / Lorri Glover
- A Black Loyalist's Liberty: How Lucy Banbury Took Back Her Freedom / Carin Bloom
- In Reduced Circumstances: Loyalist Women and British Government Assistance, 1779-1783 / Todd W. Braisted
- Complicated Allegiances: Women, Politics, and Property in Post-Occupation Charleston / Jacqueline Beatty
- The "Widowed State": Women's Labor, Sacrifice, and Self-Sufficiency in the American Revolution / Alisa Wade.