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• catalog abstract "Gundersen's analysis benefits from two decades of scholarly research into the lives of colonial women. Her vivid account synthesizes the work of her colleagues and brings an essential multicultural perspective to the discussion. She examines the lives of African women brought as slaves to the colonies and their American-born descendants, as well as of Native American women. Gundersen also extends the parameters of her study to include the decades that bracketed the Revolution, framing her argument around three generations of women in three households. To be Useful to the World opens with engaging accounts of three women: Elizabeth Porter, a Virginian of the small-planter class whose household includes her extended family and several slaves; Deborah Franklin, the Philadelphian wife of Benjamin Franklin; and Margaret Brant, an Iroquois woman whose family became British allies during the Revolutionary War. Through her examination of these women's lives, Gundersen illustrates the diversity of the colonial experience for women as well as the trends that crossed ethnic and class boundaries. She then follows the lives of these women's daughters through the years of the Revolution and closes her account with their granddaughters, who began their lives in post Revolutionary America. In presenting these daughters of the Revolution, Gundersen finds that while the Revolution provided opportunities for some women it also restricted the lives of others in a give and take resulting from the integrated yet divergent communities that made up the new world. This lucid account brings to life the experience of women during a period of war and profound change, a period that continues to shape American thought and culture to the present.".
• catalog contributor b9968943.
• catalog coverage "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Women.".
• catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs To 1775.".
• catalog created "c1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "c1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
• catalog description "Gundersen's analysis benefits from two decades of scholarly research into the lives of colonial women. Her vivid account synthesizes the work of her colleagues and brings an essential multicultural perspective to the discussion. She examines the lives of African women brought as slaves to the colonies and their American-born descendants, as well as of Native American women. Gundersen also extends the parameters of her study to include the decades that bracketed the Revolution, framing her argument around three generations of women in three households. To be Useful to the World opens with engaging accounts of three women: Elizabeth Porter, a Virginian of the small-planter class whose household includes her extended family and several slaves; Deborah Franklin, the Philadelphian wife of Benjamin Franklin; and Margaret Brant, an Iroquois woman whose family became British allies during the Revolutionary War. Through her examination of these women's lives, Gundersen illustrates the diversity of the colonial experience for women as well as the trends that crossed ethnic and class boundaries. She then follows the lives of these women's daughters through the years of the Revolution and closes her account with their granddaughters, who began their lives in post Revolutionary America. In presenting these daughters of the Revolution, Gundersen finds that while the Revolution provided opportunities for some women it also restricted the lives of others in a give and take resulting from the integrated yet divergent communities that made up the new world. This lucid account brings to life the experience of women during a period of war and profound change, a period that continues to shape American thought and culture to the present.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index.".
• catalog description "The worlds of their mothers -- Women on the move -- The silken cord -- Mistress and servant -- Dutiful daughters and independent minds -- Sisters of the spirit -- "An injurious and ill judging world" -- The garden within -- Daughters of liberty -- Mothers of the Republic.".
• catalog extent "xv, 273 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "To be useful to the world.".
• catalog identifier "0805799168 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "To be useful to the world.".
• catalog isPartOf "American women, 1600-1900".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "c1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International,".
• catalog relation "To be useful to the world.".
• catalog spatial "United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Women.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs To 1775.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "973.3/082 20".
• catalog subject "E276 .G86 1996".
• catalog subject "Women United States History 18th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The worlds of their mothers -- Women on the move -- The silken cord -- Mistress and servant -- Dutiful daughters and independent minds -- Sisters of the spirit -- "An injurious and ill judging world" -- The garden within -- Daughters of liberty -- Mothers of the Republic.".
• catalog title "To be useful to the world : women in revolutionary America, 1740-1790 / Joan R. Gundersen.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".