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Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-century America Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures ; 33
author
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Parker, Alison M.; Cole, Stephanie
publisher
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Texas A&M University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0890969302
print isbn13
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9780890969304
ebook isbn13
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9780585372051
language
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English
subject
Women in politics--United States--History--19th century, United States--Politics and government--19th century.
publication date
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2000
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HQ1236.5.U6W655 2000eb
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306/.2/0820973
subject
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Women in politics--United States--History--19th century, United States--Politics and government--19th century.
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Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America
Number Thirty-three: The Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
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Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America
Edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole
Introduction by Sarah Barringer Gordon
By Stephanie McCurry, Catherine Allgor, Alison M. Parker, Janet L. Coryell, Elizabeth R. Varon, and Lori D. Ginzberg
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Copyright 2000 by the University of Texas at Arlington Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved First edition
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48-1984. Binding materials have been chosen for durability.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America / edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole; introduction by Sarah Barringer Gordon ; by Stephanie McCurry... [et al.]. p. cm.(Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; 33) ISBN 0-89096-930-2 (cloth) 1. Women in politicsUnited StatesHistory19th century. 2. United StatesPolitics and government19th century. I. Parker, Alison M. (Alison Marie), 1965 II. Cole, Stephanie, 1962 III. Series. HQ1236.5.U6 w655 2000 306'.2'0820973dc21 99-054871
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To Kathleen Underwood
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction: Politics, Marriage, and the Texture of History
Sarah Barringer Gordon
3
Chapter 1 "The Soldier's Wife": White Women, the State, and the Politics of Protection in the Confederacy
Stephanie McCurry
15
Chapter 2 "A Lady Will Have More Influence": Women and Patronage in Early Washington City
Catherine Allgor
37
Chapter 3 "What We Do Expect the People Legislatively to Effect": Frances Wright, Moral Reform, and State Legislation
Alison M. Parker
61
Chapter 4 Superseding Gender: The Role of the Woman Politico in Antebellum Partisan Politics
Janet L. Coryell
84
Chapter 5 Patriotism, Partisanship, and Prejudice: Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond and Debates over Female Civic Duty in Post Civil War America
Elizabeth R. Varon
113
Chapter 6 Pernicious Heresies: Female Citizenship and Sexual Respectability in the Nineteenth Century
Lori D. Ginzberg
139
List of Contributors
163
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Preface
In the spring of 1998, Alison Parker organized the annual Walter Prescott Webb lectures at the University of Texas at Arlington. The essays that emerged from that conference and the accompanying essay competition follow. In planning the conference, Parker sought to bring together a group of historians involved in the latest research on women's participation in the political life of nineteenth-century America. Thus, this volume began with the premise that women were involved both implicitly and explicitly in the political process to a greater extent than historians had recognized. First, these essays address what possibilities were open for women's participation in nineteenth-century politics, as well as what limitations were placed upon them. They also investigate how the variety of political activities that women engaged in tell us about who they were as citizens, and in what ways the possibility of political action and a political voice affected citizenship. Finally, they ask how women's political activities helped to form the state and the eventual consolidation of a strong central government. As the essays discuss women activists and debates about women's citizenship, they transform our understanding of key moments of transition in American history when the state was being defined and redefined. The first half of the nineteenth century, in particular, was a crucial era of state formation. Throughout the nineteenth century, the possibility of women's suffrage shaped and was shaped by transformations within the state. As a part of exploring women's relationship to the state, this volume reorganizes our thinking about the ways in which the state was (and is) gendered.
Political, in this volume, is broadly defined. The essays successfully illustrate that women's lack of access to the ballot box did not preclude a variety of strategies for, or modes of, political activism. Their strategies ranged from direct participation in partisan politics to claiming access to public resources, thus assuming a new political identity, such as Confederate soldiers' wives. From the outset, we have assumed that women are a part of the larger
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