Women of the Republic : Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America Linda K. Kerber presents a groundbreaking analysis of the role of women during the Revolutionary Era.

In this volume is gathered some of Kerber's finest work. Ten essays address the role of women in early American history, and more broadly in intellectual and cultural history, and explore the rhetoric of historiography.

In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time.

A very different picture evolves from this book, which the author calls "a reconsideration of American political conversation in the early national reriod." Mrs.