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I thought this article on Women’s work in Colonial Philadelphia was very interesting as we often do not think of the roles women played being connected to independently generating money during this colonial period. '''I think the key phrase from this section is on page 98 where the author states that a problem with assuming women’s sole source of income was that it “casts women as only passive recipients of wealth, rather than generators of wealth.” Indeed the author goes about disproving this idea showing how women were capable of generating their own income capable of sustaining them and their families upon the death of their husbands or if they chose never to marry.''' Work consisted of gender specific works, such as was connected with the family and home, and nongender specific works that could be picked up from the trade of husband or father. Whichever the case, this article shows women as being productive citizens, contributing to their own wealth as well as that of their community and doing so, it is an important contribution to the study of women in colonial America. -- Elyse Lawrence | I thought this article on Women’s work in Colonial Philadelphia was very interesting as we often do not think of the roles women played being connected to independently generating money during this colonial period. '''I think the key phrase from this section is on page 98 where the author states that a problem with assuming women’s sole source of income was that it “casts women as only passive recipients of wealth, rather than generators of wealth.” Indeed the author goes about disproving this idea showing how women were capable of generating their own income capable of sustaining them and their families upon the death of their husbands or if they chose never to marry.''' Work consisted of gender specific works, such as was connected with the family and home, and nongender specific works that could be picked up from the trade of husband or father. Whichever the case, this article shows women as being productive citizens, contributing to their own wealth as well as that of their community and doing so, it is an important contribution to the study of women in colonial America. -- Elyse Lawrence | ||
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| + | I was slightly confused by “Women’s Work in Colonial Philadelphia” it had a paragraph about nurses on page 100. The way Wulf speaks about it makes it seem like female nurses were a common thing in the 18th century. However, in my research for my 299 paper it kept mentioning that women nurses during the beginning of the Civil War were quite rare (until a year or so in when they needed more “man” power and allowed women to be nurses). Would women nurses in the Civil War be rare because it was so close to combat or was my impression wrong and women were in fact quite common as nurses well before the Civil War? –Megan Mc. | ||
