Pioneers for woman's rights & abolition. 3 superb titles. Pedestal to politics.

Description: This is a great deal (which includes free Media Mail shipping) on three highly regarded works about women and women's role in the early republic, the rise of Southern women "from pedestal to politics" from the early 19th to early 20th Century, and an absorbing biography of the Grimke sisters of South Carolina, who were early pioneers in woman's rights and abolition. See below for more detailed descriptions of these important and enlightening works. Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right. Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice? When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not. The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics 1830 1930 Challenges the traditional view of Southern women in the nineteenth century, revealing their gradual emergence into political and professional spheres. Grimke' Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolition. A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings. Books will always be packaged securely for safe shipment, and will ship via USPS Media Mail, unless otherwise requested. We offer free media mail shipping, but if you would like to upgrade to an expedited shipping method, please contact us. Please take a look at the many other books we have listed, there's always a great variety, and we often have related books, or book collections, on any given genre, subject, theme, etc., or books by the same author. We ship internationally through ebay's Global Shipping Program. Return policyWe take great care in giving accurate and detailed descriptions of our books, and always package them safely and securely. Please take a good look at the photos and contact us if you have any questions before purchasing or bidding. We hope you have no cause to return an item, but if you do we offer 30 day returns. Standard ebay return policies are followed. FeedbackIf you are happy with your purchase and the service, please leave positive feedback, and we will reciprocate right away.If you are not happy for any reason, please contact us at your earliest convenience. Thank you!

Price: 17 USD

Location: West Hartford, Connecticut

End Time: 2025-01-06T00:39:52.000Z

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