Loosening the Bonds

By Joan M. Jensen

Subjects: United states, emigration and immigration, Women in public life, Women in agriculture, Farm life, Rural conditions, Rural women, History, India, emigration and immigration

Description: "This book--the first to investigate the rich and complex lives of rural women during this period--focuses on women in the Philadelphia hinterland and shows how they became an essential part of that area's rise to agricultural prominence." The author concludes that "rural women in the mid-Atlantic region decreased patriarchal power within the family, became active shapers of the process of commercialization and economic development, and carved out new roles for themselves in public life--providing the base for the development of the feminist movement in the antebellum era"--Book jacket.