| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Carol Berkin. Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2005. Pp. xviii, 194. $24.00.

The title of Carol Berkin's book clearly introduces the important facets of her work. One is the reminder that where and when there were Founding Fathers there were also Founding Mothers. The second is the nod to "Republican Motherhood," a concept presented in Linda K. Kerber's Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (1980) and parsed by many historians since then. Finally, as indicated by its subtitle the book includes not just the republic's mothers but also the other women who contributed to and were affected by the American Revolution's war and, to a lesser degree, ideology. Berkin utilizes much of the scholarship about women in late eighteenth-century America that has been produced over the past twenty-five years and presents a synthesis that is eminently readable and useful.

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