ISBN:
9781442205598
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1442205598
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9781442205604
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1442205601
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xx, 217 pages)
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
American controversies series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lasser, Carol Antebellum women
DDC:
305.4097309034
Keywords:
Women Social conditions
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19th century
;
United States
;
Women Social conditions
;
18th century
;
United States
;
Women Political activity
;
History
;
19th century
;
United States
;
Women Political activity
;
History
;
18th century
;
United States
;
United States
;
Women Social conditions 18th century
;
Women Political activity 19th century
;
History
;
Women Political activity 18th century
;
History
;
Women Social conditions 19th century
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
Gender & Ethnic Studies
;
Gender Studies & Sexuality
;
Social Sciences
;
Women ; Political activity
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Women's Studies
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
United States
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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