Pierson, Michael D.

Free hearts and free homes gender and American antislavery politics / [electronic resource] : Michael D. Pierson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiii, 250 p. - Gender & American culture . - Gender & American culture. .

Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York, Binghampton.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.

Liberty party gender ideologies -- From liberty to free soil : gender and emancipation -- Antislavery women and the triumph of domestic feminism -- Democrats and the defense of patriarchy -- Gender in the 1856 Republican campaign -- Republican women and the 1856 election -- Republican gender ideology in 1860.


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Antislavery movements--History--United States--19th century.
Political parties--History--United States--19th century.
Women abolitionists--History--United States--19th century.
Sex role--Political aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Women--Political activity--History--United States--19th century.
Political culture--History--United States--19th century.


United States--Politics and government--1849-1861.


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