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We Mean to Be Counted - White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Paperback, New edition)
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We Mean to Be Counted - White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Gender and American Culture
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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. |Demonstrates the widespread reform efforts
and partisan political activities of elite white women in
antebellum Virginia. An eye-opening contribution to the history of
women's activism in the U.S.
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