Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast (eBook)

Gina M. Martino (Autor)

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2018
232 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-4100-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.In returning these forgotten women to the history of the northeastern borderlands, this study challenges scholars to reconsider the flexibility of gender roles and reveals how women's participation in transatlantic systems of warfare shaped institutions, polities, and ideologies in the early modern period and the centuries that followed.

Autor

Gina M. Martino is assistant professor of history at the University of Akron.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.3.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Reihe/Serie: The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
• Zusatzinfo: 3 halftones, 4 maps
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 7 Years’ War • Acadia • American Indian women • American women's history • Borderlands history • Boston • Canadian women's history • Captivity Narratives • colonial American history • Early American History • Early American military history • Eighteenth-century New • Eighteenth-century New England • Eighteenth-century New France • Garrison houses in New England • Hannah Dustan • Historical memory in the United States • History of colonialism in America • History of frontiers • Jeanne Mance • Jesuits in New France • King Philip’s War • Madeleine de Verchères • Maine • Marie de l’Incarnation • Mary Rowlandson • Massachusetts • Military history of early America • Montreal • Native American women in early America • new england history • New Hampshire • Northeastern borderlands • Quebec • separate spheres • Seventeenth-century New England • Seventeenth-century New France • Ursulines in New France • Violent women in American history • Women and gender in colonial New England • Women and war in early America • Women as Amazons • Women as combatants • Women in colonial New France
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-4100-3 / 1469641003
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4100-3 / 9781469641003