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- Title
"A Wife and a Mother Has No Business to Be So Well Dressed": Gender, Class, and Dynasty in the Revolutionary Republic.
- Authors
CUTTERHAM, TOM
- Abstract
The article discusses various aspects of the association between social class, sexuality, gender, and citizenship during the American Revolutionary War era, and it mentions the experiences of a mother named Angelica Carter, her merchant husband John Carter, and their children in Boston, Massachusetts between 1777 and 1780. Family life and the social conditions of woman are assessed, as well as elite sociability and social status.
- Subjects
BOSTON (Mass.); SOCIAL classes; GENDER; CARTER, Angelica; ELITE (Social sciences); CITIZENSHIP; CARTER, John; HUMAN sexuality
- Publication
Journal of the Early Republic, 2024, Vol 44, Issue 2, p189
- ISSN
0275-1275
- Publication type
Article