Description: "These essays examine women's varying roles during the War for Independence"--
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This intriguing collection provides a richly diverse view of the myriad ways women waged war during the fight for American independence. The essays importantly take us into the lives of Black women, Native American women, White women of all classes, women of different regions, and women on all sides of the conflict. Notably, war meant not only sacrifice and hardship for women, but also violence. The homefront was not as safe a space as we tend to think. Just as women and gender historians have revealed how blurred the lines were between public and private, this volume does the same for battlefield and homefront, military and civilian.
--Charlene M. Boyer Lewis, Kalamazoo College, author of Ladies and Gentlemen on Display: Planter Society at the Virginia Springs, 1790-1860