Free hearts and free homes
Subtitle: gender and American antislavery politics
By: Michael D. Pierson.
Series: Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1861; Political parties -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women in politics -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York, Binghampton.
Table of contents: title: Liberty party gender ideologies; title: From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation; title: Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism; title: Democrats and the defense of patriarchy; title: Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign; title: Republican women and the 1856 election; title: Republican gender ideology in 1860.