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Antebellum women : private, public, partisan /
How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
©2010.
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| Colección: | American controversies series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question by going beyond previous works in the field. The authors identify three phases in the changing relationship of women to civic and political activities. They first situate women as "deferential domestics"in a world of conservative gender expectations; then map out the development of an ideology that. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781442205598 1442205598 9781442205604 1442205601 1282936719 9781282936713 9786612936715 6612936711 |