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• catalog abstract "Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the 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. Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial 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 slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.".
• catalog contributor b10697988.
• catalog coverage "Virginia Politics and government 1775-1865.".
• catalog created "c1998.".
• catalog date "1998".
• catalog date "c1998.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
• catalog description "Ch. 1. The Representatives of Virtue: Female Benevolence and Moral Reform -- Ch. 2. This Most Important Charity: The American Colonization Society -- Ch. 3. The Ladies Are Whigs: Gender and the Second Party System -- Ch. 4. To Still the Angry Passions: Women as Sectional Mediators and Partisans -- Ch. 5. 'Tis Now Liberty or Death: The Secession Crisis -- Epilogue: The War and Beyond.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-220) and index.".
• catalog description "Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the 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.".
• catalog description "Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial 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 slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.".
• catalog extent "x, 234 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "We mean to be counted.".
• catalog identifier "0807823902 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0807846961 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "We mean to be counted.".
• catalog isPartOf "Gender & American culture".
• catalog issued "1998".
• catalog issued "c1998.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
• catalog relation "We mean to be counted.".
• catalog spatial "Virginia Politics and government 1775-1865.".
• catalog spatial "Virginia".
• catalog subject "306.2/082 21".
• catalog subject "Elite (Social sciences) Virginia History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "HQ1236.5.U6 V37 1998".
• catalog subject "Whig Party (Va.) History.".
• catalog subject "Women Political activity Virginia History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Women social reformers Virginia History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Women, White Virginia Societies and clubs History 19th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. The Representatives of Virtue: Female Benevolence and Moral Reform -- Ch. 2. This Most Important Charity: The American Colonization Society -- Ch. 3. The Ladies Are Whigs: Gender and the Second Party System -- Ch. 4. To Still the Angry Passions: Women as Sectional Mediators and Partisans -- Ch. 5. 'Tis Now Liberty or Death: The Secession Crisis -- Epilogue: The War and Beyond.".
• catalog title "We mean to be counted : white women & politics in antebellum Virginia / Elizabeth R. Varon.".
• catalog type "text".