Free Hearts and Free Homes

Gender and American Antislavery Politics

Michael D. Pierson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2003 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-5455-6 (ISBN)

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By 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 of the Liberty party in 1840 through the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, antislavery parties celebrated the social practices of modernizing northern families. In an era of social transformations, they attacked their Democratic foes as defenders of an older, less egalitarian patriarchal world. In ways rarely before seen in American politics, Pierson says, antebellum voters could choose between parties that articulated different visions of proper family life and gender roles. By exploring the ways John and Jessie Benton Fremont and Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln were presented to voters as prospective First Families, and by examining the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lydia Maria Child, and other antislavery women, Free Hearts and Free Homes rediscovers how crucial gender ideologies were to American politics on the eve of the Civil War.

MICHAEL D. PIERSON is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is author of Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics (from the University of North Carolina Press).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.6.2003
Reihe/Serie	Gender and American Culture
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 231 mm
Gewicht	339 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8078-5455-7 / 0807854557
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-5455-6 / 9780807854556
Zustand	Neuware