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A new type of womanhood : discursive politics and social change in antebellum America / Natasha Kirsten Kraus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kraus, Natasha Kirsten, 1966-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sociological analysis of the ideology and the reality of True Womanhood as manifest in 19th century NY state culture and politics, as well as those feminist protests and legislative-/market-developments which revised this contradiction.
- Contents:
- True womanhood, the economy, and woman's rights
- Reading antebellum history aporetically : renarrating womanhood, property rights, and the 1850s woman's movement
- Gendered economies : the social meanings of womanhood
- Gendered law : antebellum institutions regulating women, property, and contract
- The antebellum woman's movement : reshaping the interimplicated relations of womanhood and contract
- Conclusion: Structural aporias : questions, thoughts, and contemporary politics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923395
- 9781282923393
- 1282923390
- 9780822390046
- 0822390043
- OCLC:
- 246726499
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