Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1998 - History - 319 pages
With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence of events and ideas_before and after 1848_that, in her vie

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Contents

Firstborn Feminism
1
Citizenship Understood and Misunderstood
15
Visual Politics
41
Conscience Custom and Church Politics
75
The Political Fall of Woman
103
The Bonds of Matrimony
155
The Sovereign Body of the Citizen
191
Notes
205
Bibliography
273
Index
309
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Nancy Isenberg received her Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University. She is the author of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America; Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (winner of the 2008 Oklahoma Book Award for non-fiction); Madison and Jefferson, co-authored with Andrew Burstein, was named one of the top five non-fiction titles of 2010 by Kirkus; and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, which is a 2016 New York Times Bestseller. She has been featured on C-SPAN2 "Book TV," and on various NPR programs. She and Andrew Burstein are regular contributors to Salon.com.

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