Format:
xiii, 215 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9781469640990
,
9781469668772
Series Statement:
The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
Content:
"Across the borderlands of the early American Northeast, New England, New France, and native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime roles as essential public actors, wielding muskets, hatchets, and makeshift weapons while fighting for their families, communities, and nations. Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, Gina M. Martino places borderlands women in a broad context of empire, cultural exchange, violence, and nation building, demonstrating how women's war making was embedded in national and imperial strategies of expansion and resistance. As Martino shows, women's participation in warfare was not considered transgressive; rather it was integral to traditional gender ideologies of the period, supporting rather than subverting established systems of gender difference"--
Note:
Introduction: Among the Vanguard -- Part I, Encountering Martial Women. Necessary to Abide: Gendered Spheres and Spaces in New England's Wars -- Everyone Ran to Help: Rank and Gender in the Wars of New France -- Deploying Amazons: Women and Wartime Propaganda -- Part II, Redrafting Martial Women. Appropriate Combatants: Women in the New Imperial Military Societies of the Northeastern Borderlands -- Resolute Motherhood: Memories of Women's War Making in New England -- Epilogue: Heroines, Saviors, and Curiosities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4696-4100-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
USA Nordoststaaten
;
Krieg
;
Frau
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschichte 1650-1776
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