Bøker av Linda K. Kerber

Drawn from the direct testimony provided by women in their letters, diaries, and legal records, this text describes women's participation in the American Revolution, evaluates changes in their education in the late 18th century and analyzes their status in law and society.

This volume addresses the role of women in early American history, and more broadly in intellectual and cultural history, and it explores the rhetoric of historiography. The author includes women in the history of the Revolutionary era, then makes the discovery that gender is her central subject.

The Federalists of Jefferson's time have been described by historians as complainers and obstructionists. A very different picture evolves from this book, which the author calls "a reconsideration of American political conversation in the early national reriod."