We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia Contributor(s): Varon, Elizabeth R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807846961 ISBN-13: 9780807846964 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $40.38 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: Demonstrates the widespread reform efforts and partisan political activities of elite white women in antebellum Virginia. An eye-opening contribution to the history of womens activism in the U.S. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - 19th Century |
Dewey: 306.208 |
LCCN: 97021587 |
Lexile Measure: 1490 |
Series: Gender and American Culture |
Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.43" W x 9.1" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - South Atlantic - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - Virginia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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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Contributor Bio(s): Varon, Elizabeth R.: - Elizabeth R. Varon is professor of history at Temple University. |