Antebellum women
Subtitle: public, private, partisan
By: Carol Lasser and Stacey Robertson
Contributors: Robertson, Stacey M.
Series: American controversies series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780742551961; 9781442205598
Description: The authors identify three phases in the changing relationship of women to civic and political activities. They first situate women as deferential domestics in a world of conservative gender expectations; then map out the development of an ideology that allowed women to leverage their familial roles into participation as companionate co-workers in movements of religion, reform, and social welfare; and finally trace the path of those who followed their causes into the world of politics as passionate partisans. The book includes a selection of primary documents that encompasses both well-known works and previously unpublished texts representing a variety of genres, making Antebellum Women a unique volume work that will introduce readers to the documentary record as well as to the vibrant body of historical work on gender in the early nineteenth century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Charlotte Temple; title: Three months in the life of a Maine midwife; title: The young ladies' mentor; title: The law of Baron and Femme, 1816; title: Cherokee Women's Petitions 1817, 1818, and 1831; title: The American frugal housewife; title: Democracy in America, 1840; title: Catharine Beecher, a treatise on domestic economy, 1841; title: Lowell Mill girls, 1849-1851; title: Salem Charitable Society Constitution, 1804; title: African Dorcas Association, 1828; title: Female Moral Reform Society report, 1835; title: Address to Christian females in slaveholding states, 1836; title: Fathers and Rulers Petition, 1836; title: Controversy over abolitionist lectures of the Grimké sisters; title: Mary Lyon's plans for the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1837; title: Anti-slavery sewing circles, 1847; title: "World's" Temperance Conventions, 1853; title: Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by herself, 1861; title: Mary Davis letter in support of abolition and the liberty party, 1847; title: Resolutions and declaration of sentiments adopted by the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention, 1848; title: Mary Sheldon's composition book entry : "Women and politics," 1848; title: Jane Swisshelm attacks the Compromise of 1850; title: Uncle Tom's cabin, 1852; title: Sojourner truth's "Aren't I a woman?" speech, as reported in 1851 and 1863; title: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on free labor, 1855; title: Jessie Frémont song, 1856; title: Lydia Maria Child's letter to Governor Wise regarding John Brown, 1859; title: Susan B. Anthony letter describing a "wide awake" Republican Serenade, 1860; title: Anna Dickinson's letter in support of Lincoln, 1864.