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The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century was written by Catherine Clinton. Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and later studied sociology and African American History at Harvard University, graduating in 1973. Clinton maintains strong research interest in US history, specifically women’s history. She had published many popular books that examine different perspectives toward women’s contribution during the nineteenth century, how African-American women played a major role during the American Revolution. As we speak for women, Catherine Clinton pointed out that women were left out entirely in US’s history, their …show more content…

Just like men, women were seeking for a better life, economic, and freedom of religion. Perhaps, they were treated as equally as men, if there were not enough food, women would not be the first one to eat or get full. But at the same time, the amount of works they putted in were not, or even more, less than what men did. For example, Judith Giton, she was one of the refugees, wrote:” I have been six months without tasting bread, working like ground slave; and I have even passed three and four years without having food when I wanted it.” The author used this evidence to show the audience the role of women in the early age of America, they still need to put a lot of effort into farming and building the community, but then their contributions were totally ignored by the society. Furthermore, the introduction of “civilization”-European influence-brought about decline in female status, specifically Indians females, they were viewed as more susceptible to religion and moral coercion, the white disagreed of strong roles for women, they distorted images of Indian women as well as men to support their own political and economic drives to dominate, and drain Indian cultures. Speaking of an Indian woman, Tekakawiha (Lily of the Mohawks), she joined the Catholic Church at the age of eighteen, but still then earned her the enmity of tribal leader. This is showing the women do play a major roles within Indian tribe, as it was their cultures and religion (such as mother of earth), but the the whites wanted males to dominate politically and economically, then this believes started to fade, not as vivid as

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