Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence In the monogamy, “Revolutionary Mothers”, Carol Berkin’s makes an argument that the Revolutionary War is a story of both women and men. Women played a vigorous and vital role in the War. Just as their lives changed during the Revolutionary War because they took the role of the men as nurses on the battlefields, took charge of businesses and farms, and they gathered intelligence for the Patriots as of which before this war they were just simple housewives. During the Revolution, Housewives used their acquiring authority to support the Patriot cause by disagreeing to buy British goods for use in their homes. An example will be the tea boycott, it is being a tactic for woman