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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.