A New Type of Womanhood : Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America /
Sociological analysis of the ideology and the reality of True Womanhood as manifest in 19th century NY state culture and politics, as well as those feminist protests and legislative-/market-developments which revised this contradiction.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- True womanhood, the economy, and woman's rights
- Reading antebellum history aporetically : renarrating womanhood, property rights, and the 1850s woman's movement
- Gendered economies : the social meanings of womanhood
- Gendered law : antebellum institutions regulating women, property, and contract
- The antebellum woman's movement : reshaping the interimplicated relations of womanhood and contract
- Conclusion: Structural aporias : questions, thoughts, and contemporary politics.


