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

List of Illustrations ix(2) Preface to the Cornell Paperbacks Edition xi(6) Preface to the 1980 Edition xvii(4) Acknowledgments xxi PART I: THE CONSTANT PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 3(152) 1. The Small Circle of Domestic Concerns 3(37) 2. The Important Crisis upon Which Our Fate Depends 40(31) 3. Fair Flowers, If Rightly Cultivated 71(39) 4. In What Wou'd You Shew Your Activity? 110(15) 5. As Independent as Circumstances Will Admit 125(30) PART II: THE CHANGING PATTERNS OF WOMEN'S LIVES 155(140) 6. We Commenced Perfect Statesmen 155(40) 7. Necessity Taught Us 195(33) 8. A Reverence of Self 228(28) 9. Vindicating the Equality of Female Intellect 256(39) Conclusion: A New Era of Female History 295(5) Abbreviations Appearing in the Sources and References 300(2) Glossary of Major Families and Sources 302(2) Essay on Sources 304(11) Chapter References 315(60) Index 375