Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan (American Controversies)

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How did diverse women in The united states be aware, give an explanation for, 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 allowed women to leverage their familial responsibilities into participation as “companionate co-workers” in movements of religion, reform, and social welfare; and in spite of everything trace the path of those who followed their causes into the world of politics as “passionate partisans.” The book features a choice of primary documents that encompasses both well-known works and up to now unpublished texts from numerous genres, making Antebellum Women a unique one-volume work so one can introduce readers to the documentary record in addition to to the vibrant body of historical work on gender in the early nineteenth century.

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