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Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America.

In this book, Linda Kerber fully explicated the concept of what she called "Republican Motherhood," which has become one of the most influential analytical lenses through which historians study gender in early America. Kerber conceived Republican…

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