Sex and citizenship in antebellum America
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Sex and citizenship in antebellum America
（Gender & American culture / coeditors, Linda K. Kerber, Nell Irvin Painter）
University of North Carolina Press, c1998
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Sex & citizenship in antebellum America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-307) and index
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ISBN 9780807824429
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Drawing on legal cases, church records, pamphlet literature, political fiction and women's rights convention proceedings, Nancy Isenberg here asserts that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted coherent feminist critique of church, state and family.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807847466
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With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather 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 a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted a coherent feminist critique of church, state, and family. In addition, 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 generally. By focusing on rights discourse and political theory, Isenberg moves beyond a narrow focus on suffrage. Democracy was in the process of being redefined in antebellum America 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 popular press, were inseparable from the gendered meaning of nineteenth-century citizenship. |Illuminates the origins of American feminism by showing how antebellum feminists moved beyond suffrage to influence thinking about the nature of citizenship and rights more generally.
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