[PDF.21ua] We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)

We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)

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 | #2105646 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  1998-03-09 |  1998-03-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.56 x6.13l,.81 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A new look at antebellum Southern women|By Valorie T.|The historical consensus is that white women in the antebellum period were excluded from political participation. Varon argues that elite middle class women were active in political participation, but they did not attempt to occupy the public sphere of men. Instead, women organized benevolent societies, worked as mediators,| |This pathbreaking [book] will appeal to both scholars and nonspecialist audiences.|"Choice"

"A well-written, carefully argued examination of Virginia women's public roles.|"Left History""

A very good book that all womenUs and southern his

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed
the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout t...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)   |  Elizabeth R. Varon.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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