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1 online resource (x, 234 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Gender & American culture
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Gender & American culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-220) and index. |
| Summary |
Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics. |
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Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony. |
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The representatives of virtue: female benevolence and moral reform -- This most important charity: the American Colonization Society -- The ladies are Whigs: gender and the second party system -- To still the angry passions: women as sectional mediators and partisans -- 'Tis now liberty or death: the secession crisis -- Epilogue: the war and beyond. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Whig Party (Va.) -- History.
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Whig Party (Va.) |
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History. |
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Whig Party (Va.) |
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Women -- Political activity -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Virginia. |
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19th century |
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Women social reformers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
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Women social reformers. |
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Women, White -- Virginia -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 19th century.
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Women, White. |
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Elite (Social sciences) -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
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Elite (Social sciences) |
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Geschichte 1800-1860. |
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Varon, Elizabeth R., 1963- We mean to be counted. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998 0807823902 (DLC) 97021587 (OCoLC)37024161 |
| ISBN |
0807866083 (electronic book) |
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9780807866085 (electronic book) |
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0807823902 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807846961 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807823903 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807846964 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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