Author: dayounglee

Although the scholarly study of American women’s history mainly focused on the nineteenth century, attention started to gear towards women in the eighteenth century as more information began to appear through extensive research. These women’s experiences included victim narratives and accounts of resistance to gender ideology. With the growing field of early American women’s history, the intersection of gender with other factors like race, class, and region has been studied through new methodologies. Women in Early America examines the choices women made during the revolutionary era and explores the socially defined female behaviors, and demonstrates the shared goals of women of different races. In the reading, the author demonstrates that Indian women went beyond contributing to extensive food resources by challenging the colonial belief that viewed Indians as uncivilized and…