{"product_id":"we-mean-to-be-counted-white-women-and-politics-in-antebellum-virginia-paperback","title":"We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth R. Varon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed\u003cbr\u003ethe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such historical assumptions. Using a wide array of sources, she demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were important actors in the public drama of politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, \u003cbr\u003epresence at political meetings and rallies, and published\u003cbr\u003eappeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such\u003cbr\u003econtroversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of\u003cbr\u003eslavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these\u003cbr\u003ewomen struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as\u003cbr\u003epartisans who boldly expressed their political views and as\u003cbr\u003emediators who infused public life with the \"feminine\" virtues of\u003cbr\u003ecompassion and harmony. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDemonstrates the widespread reform efforts and partisan political activities of elite white women in antebellum Virginia. An eye-opening contribution to the history of women s activism in the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth R. Varon is professor of history at Temple University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9.1 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130738675847,"sku":"9780807846964","price":68.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/eb37a51c2e92c70a7fedb7641450ef3f.webp?v=1732613363","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/we-mean-to-be-counted-white-women-and-politics-in-antebellum-virginia-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}