Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum AmericaUniv of North Carolina Press, 1998 - 319 páginas 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 |
Contenido
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 |
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