My project, Women's Communities of Care in Revolutionary New England, examines the latent political power of the medical networks New England women mobilized in response to sexual violence in the era of the American Revolution. Gendered violence—both quotidian hardship and targeted acts—invariably exceeded the confines of domestic space and drew on the support of midwives and women practitioners. In this sense, women across the spectrum of unfreedom experienced violence that confounded the boundaries of public and private, and provided a crucial context for the formation of women’s social and political communities. Communities of female caretakers that helped repair women's bodies might not have destroyed patriarchal structures, but the political content of social actions in the face of violence created new political constituencies across the war’s home front.