Gender Change in Early America: Carol Berkin's "Revolutionary Mothers"

Carol Birkin Among the revolutionary mothers, Birkin transcends books of history, the revolutionary era is not only a romantic era in the history of our country, but also people and women are race, social class and I believe it is time to change in culture. . Mr. Birkin mentioned women's boycott participation, protest behavior, and during the war and experiences in the family. She entered a totally different level, focusing her view on low social class women, Native American and African Americans - a group facing difficult obstacles during the revolution.

Carol Birkin clearly stated her claim with a revolutionary mother's introduction. "Most women have no fundamental change in gender ideology and gender roles, but the revolution justifies new ideas about women's abilities and their appropriate roles." (Berkin 2005) 214 In the chapter, the revolution does not bring about equality, especially in the field of economics and political science, how clear the change of women's role is. The legal status has changed. Of course, the opportunity for education will be greatly expanded, but the more often it happens, the more they remain the same. Even our popular words show deep-seated gender inequality. "You threw like a girl" indicates that your physical strength is bad. Specifically, being dependent on one person only needs to make others "scorpions" of others. Women's autonomy is often used to indicate weakness. Looking at Fortune 500 CEO, there will be only 24 female CEOs.

In "Revolutionary Mother", Carol Berkin (2005) strongly believes that the revolutionary war is a story of active participation of both men and women. Women and men in society have played a major role in securing their freedom and freedom. Most people sacrifice their happiness to achieve social freedom. Women played a positive and important role in the war; though it was a general concept through historical books, the reader believes that only men participate in the war and greatly reduce the contribution of women in the creation of the country I believed that I ignored it. Birkin was a woman of the time, a colonial woman of white, a native American and an African American, a low social class woman and a social class woman, and a patriot in the long struggle of British and North American colonies We supported people and patriots. Women

According to the revolutionary mothers' historian Carroll Birkin before the American Revolution, "British postage stamp law" required "to put government issued stamps in all legal documents, newspapers, cards and scorpions" . In protest, a group of women in New York City announced publicly in the newspaper that they refused to marry their fiancee when they applied for marriage certificates. This kind of opposition is a daring achievement in situations where women are reluctant to participate in printed conversations.