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Free hearts and free homes : gender and American antislavery politics /

By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pierson, Michael D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
Series:Gender & American culture.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Liberty party gender ideologies
  • From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation
  • Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism
  • Democrats and the defense of patriarchy
  • Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign
  • Republican women and the 1856 election
  • Republican gender ideology in 1860.