ISBN: 9780807846964

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a co… Plus…

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe 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. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and publishedappeals, Virginia''s elite white women lent their support to suchcontroversial 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 ofslavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, thesewomen struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both aspartisans who boldly expressed their political views and asmediators who infused public life with the ""feminine"" virtues ofcompassion and harmony. | We Mean To Be Counted by Elizabeth R. Varon Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > North American History > United States > Colonial P10103, Elizabeth R. Varon<

ISBN: 9780807846964

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a co… Plus…

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe 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. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions,presence at political meetings and rallies, and publishedappeals, Virginia''s elite white women lent their support to suchcontroversial 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 ofslavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, thesewomen struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both aspartisans who boldly expressed their political views and asmediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues ofcompassion and harmony. Books > Social Science > Gender > Women List_Books, [PU: University of North Carolina Press]<

1998, ISBN: 0807846961

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, ca. 1600 bis ca. 1775 (Periode der europäischen Kolonisation und Besie… Plus…

Kartoniert / Broschiert HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, ca. 1600 bis ca. 1775 (Periode der europäischen Kolonisation und Besiedlung Nordamerikas), mit Schutzumschlag 11, [PU:The University of North Carolina Press]<

ISBN: 9780807846964

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