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We mean to be counted : white women & politics in antebellum Virginia /
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely exclu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1998.
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| Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The representatives of virtue: female benevolence and moral reform
- This most important charity: the American Colonization Society
- The ladies are Whigs: gender and the second party system
- To still the angry passions: women as sectional mediators and partisans
- 'Tis now liberty or death: the secession crisis
- Epilogue: the war and beyond.