Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

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Author:

Isenberg, Nancy

Series title:

Gender and American Culture Ser.

ISBN:

978-0-8078-4746-6

Publication Date:

Dec 1998

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $37.50

Book Description:

Drawing on legal cases, church records, pamphlet literature, political fiction and women's rights convention proceedings, Nancy Isenberg here asserts that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted coherent feminist critique of church, state and family.

Book Details

Pages:	344
Detailed Subjects:	History / Women Political Science / Civil Rights Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	6.12 x 9.25 x 0.76 Inches
Book Weight:	0.125 Pounds

Author Biography

Isenberg, Nancy (Author)

Nancy Isenberg received her Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of History at Louisiana State University.

She is the author of Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America; Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (winner of the 2008 Oklahoma Book Award for non-fiction); Madison and Jefferson, co-authored with Andrew Burstein, was named one of the top five non-fiction titles of 2010 by Kirkus; and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, which is a 2016 New York Times Bestseller.

She has been featured on C-SPAN2 "Book TV," and on various NPR programs. She and Andrew Burstein are regular contributors to Salon.com.

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