Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. Kyle B. Robinson
Dr. David Van Heemst
Project Type
Student Scholarship
Scholarship Domain(s)
Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Integration
Presentation Type
Presentation
Abstract
Transregional feminism surged throughout 18th century France and America, though many historians have failed to recognize this sector of historiography. However, within the Enlightenment age, circular history will prove to be superior, with revolutionary minds contributing to the female cause. Republican Motherhood is a concept born directly out of the French and American Revolutions of the 18th centuries. Through an in-depth review of Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Abigail Adams, a clear, intellectual transfer of ideas can be noted across the Atlantic Ocean. Within Transatlantic Sisters, Republican Motherhood's origins and its social, political, economic, familial, and religious capacities, will be explored to promote the idea of a transregional expression of motherhood in the late 18th century.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
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Transatlantic Sisters: The Spread of Euro-American Ideologies as seen through Republican Motherhood
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Transregional feminism surged throughout 18th century France and America, though many historians have failed to recognize this sector of historiography. However, within the Enlightenment age, circular history will prove to be superior, with revolutionary minds contributing to the female cause. Republican Motherhood is a concept born directly out of the French and American Revolutions of the 18th centuries. Through an in-depth review of Olympe de Gouges, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Abigail Adams, a clear, intellectual transfer of ideas can be noted across the Atlantic Ocean. Within Transatlantic Sisters, Republican Motherhood's origins and its social, political, economic, familial, and religious capacities, will be explored to promote the idea of a transregional expression of motherhood in the late 18th century.