Liberty's Daughters: Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800

New
Paperback
1996
$39.57

First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.

Synopsis

First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty's Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself.

$39.57

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0801483476
ISBN 13: 9780801483479

Media Reviews

'[An] excellent book...[Norton's] first concern... is to trace the decline of patriarchy; the growth of free choice of a spouse; the rise of marital equality...the greater equality in educational attainments; the more intense concern of parents for the proper education of children; the greater permissiveness in child-rearing; and the increased cooperation between spouses in birth control...[Her] fascinating documentation, drawn from a vast range of manuscript sources, establishes the facts beyond any reasonable doubt...Norton suggests that the change resulted from... two factors. The first was the practical experience of women during the long years of revolutionary upheaval...The second...was the impact of egalitarian and republican ideology. ~Lawrence Stone, New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of History at Cornell University. She is the author of many books, including Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800, also from Cornell; In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692; and Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society.