Carol Berkin’s article, “It Was I Who Did It”: Women’s Role in the Founding of the Nation.”, discusses the ways that women contributed during as well as after the Revolutionary War. She mentions that women were vital in supporting the boycott of British goods, supporting the war effort by serving as spies, fundraising, replenishing supplies, as well as women who fought in the war disguised as men. Berkin touches base upon the fact that not all women were on the same side of the war and that there were plenty of oppositions. The changes in gender ideology that emerged as a result of the end of the war.
Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. “The Daughters of Liberty: Who Were They and What Did They Do?” History of Massachusetts, History of Massachusetts, 6 May 2017, historyofmassachusetts.org/who-were-the-daughters-of-liberty/. Accessed 10 May 2017.
Rebecca Brooks in “The Daughters of Liberty: Who Were They and What Did They Do?” talks about who the Daughters of Liberty were, …show more content…
It notes that although many women were people who followed George Washington’s camp for shelter and food, they were willing to work to receive those needs. Women earned rations by providing services such as doing laundry, cooks, nursing and other chores that did not seem necessary for soldiers to stop fighting to complete. While doing these tasks essential to the army, the women in turn, were paid back. Danyluk concludes by emphasizing how important women were to the revolutionary army and how their efforts should just as easily be recognized and honored as equally as the