Title We mean to be counted : white women & politics in antebellum Virginia / Elizabeth R. Varon

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (x, 234 pages) Series Gender & American culture Gender & American culture Contents The representatives of virtue: female benevolence and moral reform -- This most important charity: the American Colonization Society -- The ladies are Whigs: gender and the second party system -- To still the angry passions: women as sectional mediators and partisans -- 'Tis now liberty or death: the secession crisis -- Epilogue: the war and beyond Summary 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 the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-220) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Whig Party (Va.) -- History SUBJECT Whig Party (Va.) fast Subject Women -- Political activity -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Women social reformers -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century Women, White -- Virginia -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 19th century Elite (Social sciences) -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Elite (Social sciences) Politics and government Women -- Political activity Women social reformers Politik Vrouwen. Politieke activiteit. Gender Studies & Sexuality. Gender & Ethnic Studies. Social Sciences. Femmes et politique -- Virginie (États-Unis) -- 1775-1865. Femmes -- Associations -- Virginie (États-Unis) -- 1775-1865. SUBJECT Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143775 Subject Virginia Virginia Weiße. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 97021587 ISBN 0807866083 9780807866085

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