Republican Motherhood Analysis

The author states that the role of the “Republican Mother” influenced American women and their relationship with the state after the American Revolution. Before, women weren't recognized in Enlightenment literature unless they were to being spoken about in the regards of men or if their families .During the essay, Kerber explains the role of the Republican Motherhood and how it grew to become a image that many women gathered behind. Women, more specifically the mothers during the time had a political purpose in the early American Republic. Their main job as Kerber states was “raising sons and disciplining husbands to be virtuous citizens of the republic.” In the argument, Kerber uses John Locke, a philosopher, and his writing Two Treatises