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Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America (Gender and American Culture)

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With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women’s rights movement. Moderately than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas–before and after 1848–that, in her view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on quite a lot of sources, she demonstrates that women’s rights activists of the antebellum era crafted a coherent feminist critique of church, state, and circle of relatives. As well as, Isenberg shows, they developed a rich theoretical tradition that influenced not only subsequent strains of feminist thought but also ideas about the nature of citizenship and rights more most often.
By specializing in rights discourse and political theory, Isenberg moves beyond a narrow center of attention on suffrage. Democracy used to be in the process of being redefined in antebellum The usa by controversies over such volatile topics as fugitive slave laws,
temperance, Sabbath laws, capital punishment, prostitution, the Mexican War, married women’s property rights, and labor reform–all of which raised significant legal and constitutional questions. These pressing concerns, debated in women’s rights
conventions and the preferred press, were inseparable from the gendered meaning of nineteenth-century citizenship.

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