Status: ausleihbar
Verfasst von: | Stanfield, Susan J. [VerfasserIn] |
Titel: | Rewriting citizenship |
Titelzusatz: | women, race, and nineteenth-century print culture |
Verf.angabe: | by Susan J. Stanfield |
Verlagsort: | Athens, Georgia, USA |
Verlag: | The University of Georgia Press |
E-Jahr: | 2022 |
Jahr: | [2022] |
Umfang: | xi, 219 Seiten |
Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
Format: | 24 cm |
Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-0-8203-6261-8 |
Abstract: | "Rewriting Citizenship is a cultural history that reveals how race and gender influenced nineteenth-century citizenship. By focusing on "domestic literature"-cookbooks, novels, household manuals, newspapers, magazines, sermons, and even diaries-Susan J. Stanfield finds that women imbued the quotidian with "civic purpose." Indeed, it was more than the social reformers and political activists who argued that women should have a role in government. Because many of these women saw their civic status as "different"-though not necessarily inferior to-that of men, they made forays into the public sphere through print culture. In Stanfield's estimation, this helped women fulfill culturally constructed ideas of femininity-maintaining the "authority of their womanhood"-while they also actively redefined citizenship by linking their domestic work to nation building. Unsurprisingly, middle-class white women sought to differentiate themselves from immigrants, the working poor, and women of color by distinguishing between household labor and household management. But middle-class African American women also used the "politics of respectability" to enhance their own status. Like their white counterparts, these women argued that their well-ordered homes proved that their husbands and father were patriarchs and were therefore worthy of citizenship and the vote"-- |
Schlagwörter: | (s)Sezessionskrieg <1861-1865> / (s)Staatsangehörigkeit / (s)Druckmedien / (s)Frau / (s)Weiblichkeit / (s)Diskriminierung / (s)Rassismus / (s)Sklaverei |
Sprache: | eng |
K10plus-PPN: | 1795683988 |
978-0-8203-6261-8
Rewriting citizenship / Stanfield, Susan J. [VerfasserIn]; [2022]
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