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In Dependence - Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (Hardcover)
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In Dependence - Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Places
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Examines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives
of women Patriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom
restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet
women in this period exploited these confines, transforming
constraints into vehicles of female empowerment. Through a close
reading of thousands of legislative, judicial, and institutional
pleas across seventy years of history in three urban centers,
Jacqueline Beatty illustrates the ways in which women in the
revolutionary era asserted their status as dependents, demanding
the protections owed to them as the assumed subordinates of men. In
so doing, they claimed various forms of aid and assistance, won
divorce suits, and defended themselves and their female friends in
the face of patriarchal assumptions about their powerlessness.
Ultimately, women in the revolutionary era were able to advocate
for themselves and express a relative degree of power not in spite
of their dependent status, but because of it. Their varying degrees
of success in using these methods, however, was contingent on their
race, class, and socio-economic status, and the degree to which
their language and behavior conformed to assumptions of
Anglo-American femininity. In Dependence thus exposes the central
paradoxes inherent in American women's social, legal, and economic
positions of dependence in the Revolutionary era, complicating
binary understandings of power and weakness, of agency and
impotence, and of independence and dependence. Significantly, the
American Revolution provided some women with the language and
opportunities in which to claim old rights-the rights of
dependents-in new ways. Most importantly, In Dependence shows how
women's coming to consciousness as rights-bearing individuals laid
the groundwork for the activism and collective petitioning efforts
of later generations of American feminists.
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