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Book Review


Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. By Carol Berkin. (New York: Knopf, 2005. xviii, 194 pp. $24.00, ISBN 1-4000-4163-5.)
Revolutionary Mothers uses a topical, biographical approach to introduce a general readership to women's experiences during the American Revolution. Eight chapters on specific groups of women are bookended with chapters that look at women's status before and after the war. Carol Berkin's conclusion is that after a brief interlude of extraordinary activity during the Revolution, women settled into a new role that offered them expanded authority as intellectual beings and the moral arbiters of the new age in exchange for a reduced recognition as participants in the economy. Those who were poor or of color lost the most in this transformation. . . .
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