7. Republican Virtue. The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America (1987)

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part one. Overviews
6. 1. Theory. A Culturalist Critique of Trends in Feminist Theory (1993) 21
7. 2. History. Untangling the Roots of Modern Sex Roles: A Survey of Four Centuries of Change (1978) 42
8. Part Two. Colonial Transitions
9. 3. Revaluing Motherhood. American Feminine Ideals in Transition: The Rise of the Moral Mother, 1785–1815 (1978) 57
10. 4. Regulating Courtship. Women and the Law of Courtship in Eighteenth-Century America (2001) 78
11. 5. Utilitarian vs. Evangelical Perspectives. Women, Love, and Virtue in the Thought of Edwards and Franklin (1993) 102
12. Part Three. Revolutionary Syntheses
13. 6. Religion and Sentimentalism. Religion, Literary Sentimentalism, and Popular Revolutionary Ideology (1994) 121
14. 7. Republican Virtue. The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America (1987) 136
15. 8. Public/Private. Gender and the Public/Private Dichotomy in American Revolutionary Thought (2001) 154
16. Notes 167
17. Index 217