Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

by Nancy Isenberg

Book Overview

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 view, marked the real birth of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of sources, she demonstrates that women's rights activists of the antebellum era crafted a coherent feminist critique of church, state,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847461
• ISBN13: 9780807847466
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"