Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America /
Parker, Alison M.(Alison Marie),1965-
Cole, Stephanie,1962-
College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A & M University Press,
c2000.
"The soldier's wife": white women, the state, and the politics of protection in the Confederacy / Stephanie McCurry -- "A lady will have more influence": women and patronage in early Washington city / Catherine Allgor -- "What we do expect the people legislatively to effect": Frances Wright, moral reform, and state legislation / Alison M. Parker -- Superseding gender: the role of the woman politico in antebellum partisan politics / Janet L. Coryell -- Patriotism, partisanship, and prejudice: Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond and debates over female civic duty in post-Civil War America / Elizabeth R. Varon -- Pernicious heresies: female citizenship and sexual respectability in the nineteenth century / Lori D. Ginzberg.
Includes bibliographical references.
Women
Politics and government
Women
Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America.