Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.