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During the revolutionary era, at a time when North Americans proclaimed liberty and political participation as their birthright, women remained separate from the institutions of political life. This 7 page research paper examines the sociopolitical oppression of women and the beginnings of feminist activism in the United States. The writer discusses womens' productivity in the 19th century, the first school mistresses, and more. It is argued that women essentially created a female sub-culture which redefined the meaning of public life itself. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and the communication of political ideas and information. Even when women had access to such public places or to political writings and pamphlets, their lower literacy rates ensured that few
could read or fully understand them. Yet despite their general exclusion from daily political life during the last score of the eighteenth century, women were stirred by the same revolutionary
zeal. Like men, some supported the crown while others proclaimed that they were "born for liberty." From the Stamp Act crowds in the 1760s to
consumer boycotts in the 1770s, to the military conflict between 1776 and 1781, women were inescapably caught up in the revolutionary ferment regardless of whether they were patriots or loyalists,
urban or rural, slave, free, or Indian. At first, the only tradition of female activism was associated with the "lower sort" and particularly with "mobs" as their opponents would call
them; these crowds had regularly protested economic injustices throughout the eighteenth century in Europe and America. When merchants charged more than the accepted "just price," especially for food or household
goods, women commonly joined or led food riots to seize the goods that they and their families needed. A more fundamental shift in perspective emerged as women s experience in
the revolutionary era helped shape a new consciousness of women s political worth and capacities; this made their official exclusion increasingly problematic. II. The Beginnings of Activism
In 1780, Philadelphia women proposed to create a national women s organization to raise money for the war troops. In a broadside entitled "Sentiments of an American
Woman," they claimed the mantle of patriotism for women "born for liberty, disdaining to bear the irons of a tyrannic Government." Women s loyalty and courage would be more visible
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