3 options
Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America / edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole ; introduction by Sarah Barringer Gordon ; by Stephanie McCurry ... [et al.]. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 33
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wright, Frances, 1795-1852.
- Wright, Frances.
- Carroll, Anna Ella, 1815-1894.
- Carroll, Anna Ella.
- Van Lew, Elizabeth L., 1818-1900.
- Van Lew, Elizabeth L.
- Women--Political activity--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- United States--Politics and government--19th century.
- United States.
- Women--History--Political activity--19th century--United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 164 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- "The soldier's wife": white women, the state, and the politics of protection in the Confederacy / Stephanie McCurry
- "A lady will have more influence": women and patronage in early Washington city / Catherine Allgor
- "What we do expect the people legislatively to effect": Frances Wright, moral reform, and state legislation / Alison M. Parker
- Superseding gender: the role of the woman politico in antebellum partisan politics / Janet L. Coryell
- Patriotism, partisanship, and prejudice: Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond and debates over female civic duty in post-Civil War America / Elizabeth R. Varon
- Pernicious heresies: female citizenship and sexual respectability in the nineteenth century / Lori D. Ginzberg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-37205-5
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.