Natasha Kirsten Kraus

A New Type of Womanhood

Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""A New Type of Womanhood" is a very engaging book. Natasha Kirsten Kraus tells such an interesting story, I could hardly put the book down. Connecting changes in late-nineteenth-century political economy with changes in the discourse of true womanhood, Kraus offers insight into the way that the idea of women and the reforms of women function in the development of a market economy in which the notion of the promise of contract is central."--Patricia Ticineto Clough, editor of "The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343684
• ISBN-10: 0822343681
• Artikelnr.: 23879623

Autorenporträt

Natasha Kirsten Kraus

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