Women in Revolutionary and Republican America, 1760-1815
FAIN: FB-12118-74
Mary Beth Norton
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY 14850-2820)
To assess the impact of the American Revolution on women and to delineate their role in the early republic as revealed in letters and diaries. Writings about women will be used to outline the accepted defintions and norms to which women were expected to conform. Writings by women will be used to indicate the extent to which the norms were actually followed.