Women at War in the Borderlands of the Early American Northeast

Revealing the fundamental importance of martial womanhood in this era, this monograph 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 the study 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. [WorldCat]