Women's Role In The American Revolution

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The primary thesis of "Women in the American Revolution" is that women played a key role in the American Revolution through their boycott of British goods, maintaining the homestead's income and family, as well as dealing with the inequality of freedom of expression through literature. Martin is able to back up her main points through the works of many women's' works from the era. The boycott of British goods was an important factor in the lives' of many patriotic women during the Revolution. The women's' boycott of British goods helped back the economy of the colonies as well as create jobs for many women in the workforce. Many women were hired in factories where they would create clothing goods for soldiers. This point in the article is backed by Wendy Martin's use of examples of women who obtain jobs in factories and become the main income for the family. The weakness of this point within the article is that many women actually did not work in factories most women stayed home and created clothing on hand looms. Women during the American Revolution were left behind to tend to the children and the homestead while the men went to fight. This was vital during the war since women were the ones who created and supplied the clothing to soldiers, tended the fields which produced food for soldiers and families, and worked in the factories which kept up the economy. The strength of women maintaining the homestead during the war was that many were able to make the decisions about what their families, which was …show more content…

Martin is able to present these important points of women's hardships with proof from diaries, journals, and letters from women who suffered through the American

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