About the book
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.
Editions of Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781469640990
- Paperback
- ISBN 9781469668772
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469641010
- EBook
- ISBN 9798890854667
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469641003
- PDF
- ISBN 9798890854650
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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.
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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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast?
History and Archaeology > History > History of the Americas
Where can I read a sample of Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast?
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How long is Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast and how many pages does it have?
Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast has 232 page(s)
Is Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast?
Gina M. Martino
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Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469640990) and paperback(ISBN 9781469668772) and ebook(ISBN 9781469641010) and ebook(ISBN 9798890854667) and ebook(ISBN 9781469641003) and pdf(ISBN 9798890854650)
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