Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History: Women and Power During the American Revolution

This seminar explores the role of women in the Revolutionary Era, from the 1760s through the end of the American Revolution to recast the traditional American founding narrative. This course will highlight women’s daily experiences to address their part in the political origins of the conflict, the resulting tension surrounding hierarchies of patriarchal power, and economic repercussions to ask if women had a concurrent revolution. Students will use primary and secondary sources to look at the gendered power dynamics as experienced by enslaved, Native American, and other dispossessed women during this violent period. P