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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati - Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati - Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil War (Hardcover)
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Popular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from
high culture to shows barely above the level of the tawdry. Among
the options for those seeking entertainment in the summer of 1856
was the display of a "Wild Woman," purportedly a young woman
captured while living a feral life beyond the frontier. The popular
exhibit, which featured a silent, underdressed woman chained to a
bed, was almost assuredly a hoax. Local activist women, however,
used their influence to prompt a judge to investigate the display.
The court employed eleven doctors, who forcibly subdued and
examined the woman before advising that she be admitted to an
insane asylum. In his riveting analysis of this remarkable episode
in antebellum American history, Michael D. Pierson describes how
people in different political parties and sections of the country
reacted to the exhibit. Specifically, he uses the lens of the Wild
Woman display to explore the growing cultural divisions between the
North and the South in 1856, especially the differing gender
ideologies of the northern Republican Party and the more southern
focused Democrats. In addition, Pierson shows how the treatment of
the Wild Woman of Cincinnati prompted an increasing demand for
women's political and social empowerment at a time when the country
allowed for the display of a captive female without evidence that
she had granted consent.
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