Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery PoliticsBy exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution. From the birth |
Contents
Liberty Party Gender Ideologies | 25 |
Gender and Emancipation | 47 |
Antislavery Women and the Triumph of Domestic Feminism | 71 |
Free Love and womens rights advocates | 117 |
James Buchanan shown as willing to change his political clothes | 123 |
Republican Gender Ideology in 1860 | 165 |
Similar depictions of Mary Todd Lincoln and Mrs D | 167 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics Michael D. Pierson No preview available - 2003 |
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