Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
- ISBN-10
- 0807847461
- ISBN-13
- 9780807847466
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 319
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Nancy Isenberg
Description
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
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