![]() Republican Motherhood was a way for women to claim a significant political role in the New Republic without totally destroying the existing social fabric, as well as a way for them to enter public life without leaving their homes. ![]() In doing so, she defines “Republican Motherhood,” a Revolutionary era “political context in which private female virtues might comfortably co-exist with the civic virtue that was widely regarded as the cement of the Republic.” Unlike the colonial woman, who lived and worked in the context of her family and community, the Republican Mother “integrated political values into her daily life.” The ambivalent relationship between motherhood and citizenship, then, becomes one of the most complex legacies of the Revolution. In Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America, Linda Kerber rewrites early American history to include women. ![]()
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