Women and the American Revolution

I.  Historical Debates

II. Women's Experiences During the War

• Mercy Otis

• Domestic Tasks

• Military

III.  African American Women and the Revolution

IV. Revolutionary Ideology

V. Revolutionary Ideology and Women's Status

• Jane Addams

• Martin V. Massachusetts

• As an Opening Wedge

VI.  Changes in Women's Consciousness

VII. Changes in Woman's Nature

VII. Revolutionary Motherhood

• Eliza Pickney

• Changes in the Family