Jacqueline Beatty In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America 9781479812127

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Автор: Jacqueline Beatty
Название: In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America
ISBN: 9781479812127
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Социальная история и история культуры

Революции, восстания и мятежи

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Экономика трудовых ресурсов

ISBN-10: 1479812129
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.47 кг.
Дата издания: 25.04.2023
Серия: Early american places
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 11 b/w illustrations
Размер: 229 x 152
Ключевые слова: Gender studies: women,Labour economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General,HISTORY / Women,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Подзаголовок: Women and the patriarchal state in revolutionary america
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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.

In Dependence: Women and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America, Jacqueline Beatty