03355nam 2200709 a 450 991082494140332120200520144314.0979-88-908766-2-10-8078-6266-5(CKB)111087027918664(EBL)413389(OCoLC)476237302(SSID)ssj0000158092(PQKBManifestationID)11163044(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158092(PQKBWorkID)10145497(PQKB)11179653(Au-PeEL)EBL413389(CaPaEBR)ebr10202609(CaONFJC)MIL930195(MiAaPQ)EBC413389(EXLCZ)9911108702791866420021112d2003 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFree hearts and free homes gender and American antislavery politics /Michael D. Pierson1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20031 online resource (268 p.)Gender & American cultureBased on author's thesis (doctoral)--State University of New York, Binghampton.0-8078-5455-7 0-8078-2782-7 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.By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln in 1860, antislavery parties celebrated the social practices of modernizing northern families. In an era of social transformations, they attacked their Democratic foes as defenders of an older, less egalitarian patriarchal world. In ways rarely before seen in AGender & American culture.Antislavery movementsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical partiesUnited StatesHistory19th centuryWomen abolitionistsUnited StatesHistory19th centurySex rolePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory19th centuryWomenPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1849-1861Antislavery movementsHistoryPolitical partiesHistoryWomen abolitionistsHistorySex rolePolitical aspectsHistoryWomenPolitical activityHistoryPolitical cultureHistory326/.8/0973Pierson Michael D1691977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824941403321Free hearts and free homes4116808UNINA