Antebellum women : private, public, partisan / Carol Lasser and Stacey Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lasser, Carol.

Contributor:

Robertson, Stacey M.

Series:

American controversies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Women--United States--Social conditions--18th century.

Women--Political activity--United States--History--19th century.

Women--Political activity--United States--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan explores how diverse women understood, and acted upon, their varied constraints and worldviews in American society from the Revolution through the Civil War. Combining a review of the vast scholarship on early nineteenth-century gender and women with an assemblage of intriguing primary documents, this volume outlines three phases in women's engagement in civic and political activities: first as ""deferential domestics,"" then as ""companionate co-workers,"" and finally as ""passionate partis

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; PartI. Antebellum Women; PartII. Primary Documents; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

979-82-16-20325-4

1-282-93671-9

9786612936715

1-4422-0559-8

OCLC:

701704084