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Free hearts and free homes : gender and American antislavery politics / Michael D. Pierson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pierson, Michael D.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Women--Political activity.
- History.
- Sex role--Political aspects.
- Women abolitionists.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.
- Politics and government.
- Political parties--United States--History--19th century.
- Political parties.
- Women abolitionists--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex role--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Women--Political activity--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Free hearts & free homes
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- By exploring the intersection of gender and polities in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties eapitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution. From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, antislavery parties celebrated the social practices of modernizing northern families. In an era of social transformations, they attacked their Democratic foes as defenders of an older, less egalitarian patriarchal world. In ways rarely before seen in American polities, Pierson says, antebellum voters could choose between parties that artieulated different visions of proper family life and gender roles. By exploring the ways John and Jessie Benton Fremont and Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln were presented to voters as prospective First Families, and by examining the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, and other antislavery women, Free Hearts and Free Homes rediscovers how crucial gender ideologies were to American politics on the eve of the Civil War.
- Contents:
- Liberty party gender ideologies
- From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation
- Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism
- Democrats and the defense of patriarchy
- Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign
- Republican women and the 1856 election
- Republican gender ideology in 1860.
- Notes:
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York, Binghampton.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-243) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807827827
- 0807854557
- OCLC:
- 51022866
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