001476856 000__ 06332nam\a22010215i\4500 001476856 001__ 1476856 001476856 003__ DE-B1597 001476856 005__ 20231017003314.0 001476856 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001476856 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001476856 008__ 230529t20232023nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001476856 010__ $$a2022036507 001476856 020__ $$a9781479812134 001476856 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9781479812134.001.0001$$2doi 001476856 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)642362 001476856 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001476856 0410_ $$aeng 001476856 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001476856 05000 $$aHQ1418$$b.B39 2023 001476856 050_4 $$aHQ1418$$b.B39 2023 001476856 072_7 $$aHIS058000$$2bisacsh 001476856 08204 $$a305.420973/09033$$223/eng/20220825 001476856 1001_ $$aBeatty, Jacqueline, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001476856 24510 $$aIn Dependence :$$bWomen and the Patriarchal State in Revolutionary America /$$cJacqueline Beatty. 001476856 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2023] 001476856 264_4 $$c©2023 001476856 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b11 b/w illustrations 001476856 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001476856 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001476856 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001476856 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001476856 4900_ $$aEarly American Places ;$$v19 001476856 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 Sympathy and the State -- $$t2 Independence in Dependence -- $$t3 Sole and Separate -- $$t4 Matriarchal Allies and Advocates -- $$t5 The Problem of Dependence -- $$t6 To Have and to Hold Herself -- $$t7 The Rights Revolution -- $$tConclusion: On Collaboration and Collective Action -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tA Note on Sources -- $$tAbbreviations -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001476856 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001476856 520__ $$aExamines the role of the American Revolution in the everyday lives of womenPatriarchal forces of law, finance, and social custom restricted women's rights and agency in revolutionary America. Yet women in this period exploited these confines, transforming constraints into vehicles of female empowerment. Through a close reading of thousands of legislative, judicial, and institutional pleas across seventy years of history in three urban centers, Jacqueline Beatty illustrates the ways in which women in the revolutionary era asserted their status as dependents, demanding the protections owed to them as the assumed subordinates of men. In so doing, they claimed various forms of aid and assistance, won divorce suits, and defended themselves and their female friends in the face of patriarchal assumptions about their powerlessness. Ultimately, women in the revolutionary era were able to advocate for themselves and express a relative degree of power not in spite of their dependent status, but because of it.Their varying degrees of success in using these methods, however, was contingent on their race, class, and socio-economic status, and the degree to which their language and behavior conformed to assumptions of Anglo-American femininity. In Dependence thus exposes the central paradoxes inherent in American women's social, legal, and economic positions of dependence in the Revolutionary era, complicating binary understandings of power and weakness, of agency and impotence, and of independence and dependence. Significantly, the American Revolution provided some women with the language and opportunities in which to claim old rights-the rights of dependents-in new ways. 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