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First Generations: Women in Colonial America

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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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Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial America

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To Be Useful to the World: Women in Revolutionary America, 1740-1790

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"The Rights of Man and Woman in Post-Revolutionary America"

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"The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment -- An American Perspective"

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"The Planter's Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland"

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"The Evolution of White Women's Experience in Early America"

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"Brave New Worlds: Women's and Gender History"

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Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 1700-1835

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