Daughters of Liberty • Calling themselves Daughters of Liberty Daughters of Liberty, upper–class female patriots assumed a unique role at this point. “a fighting army of amazons女战士 armed with spinning wheels.” Spinning bees not only helped to undermine the masculine prejudice that women had no place in public life but also endowed spinning and weaving, previously considered routine tasks, with political virtues
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