Women Waging War in the American Revolution (Ebook) von Holly A. Mayer

Preface
Introduction: Women's Wars of the Revolution
1. "The First Incendiary": A Female Firebrand and the New York City Fire of 1776
2. "I Bare My Bosom, and Pour My Choicest Blood": Republican Sisterhood and Political Violence in Mercy Otis Warren's "Adulateur"
3. War Women of the Eastern Woodlands
4. "A Shocking Thing to Tell Of": Female Civilians, Violence, and Rape under British Military Rule
5. Neighbors, Land Ladies, and Consorts: New Jersey Women in the Midst of the Continental Army
6. Betsey Loring: Investigating a Woman's Infamy in the American Revolution
7. Killed, Imprisoned, Struck by Lightning: Soldiers' Wives on Campaign with the British Army
8. Catharine Greene's War for Independence
9. Eliza Lucas Pinckney: Female Fortitude and the Revolutionary War
10. A Black Loyalist's Liberty: How Lucy Banbury Took Back Her Freedom
11. In Reduced Circumstances: Loyalist Women and British Government Assistance, 1779-1783
12. Complicated Allegiances: Women, Politics, and Property in Post-Occupational Charleston
13. The "Widowed State": Women's Labor, Sacrifice, and Self-Sufficiency in the American Revolution
Notes on Contributors
Index