Natasha Kirsten Kraus

A New Type of Womanhood

Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America

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Produktbeschreibung

Sociological analysis of the ideology and the reality of True Womanhood as manifest in 19th century NY state culture and politics, as well as those feminist protests and legislative-/market-developments which revised this contradiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343332
• ISBN-10: 0822343339
• Artikelnr.: 23880747

Autorenporträt

Natasha Kirsten Kraus has taught sociology and women’s studies at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and has been a Research Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University, and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1
Chapter 1. True Womanhood, the Economy, and Woman's Rights 15
Chapter 2. Reading Antebellum History Aporetically: Renarrating Womanhood,
Property Rights, and the 1850s Woman's Movement 45
Part II
Chapter 3. Gendered Economies: The Social Meanings of Womanhood 83
Chapter 4. Gendered Law: Antebellum Institutions Regulating Women,
Property, and Contract 127
Chapter 5. The Antebellum Woman's Movement: Reshaping the Interimplicated
Relations of Womanhood and Contract 161
Conclusion. Structural Aporias: Questions, Thoughts ,and Contemporary
Politics 211
Notes 221
Bibliography 233
Index 257