Women and the unstable state in nineteenth-century America / edited by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole ; introduction by Sarah Barringer Gordon ; by Stephanie McCurry [and others].

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"The soldier's wife": white women, the state, and the politics of protection in the Confederacy / Stephanie McCurry -- "A lady will have more influence": women and patronage in early Washington city / Catherine Allgor -- "What we do expect the people legislatively to effect": Frances Wright, moral reform, and state legislation / Alison M. Parker -- Superseding gender: the role of the woman politico in antebellum partisan politics / Janet L. Coryell -- Patriotism, partisanship, and prejudice: Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond and debates over female civic duty in post-Civil War America / Elizabeth R. Varon -- Pernicious heresies: female citizenship and sexual respectability in the nineteenth century / Lori D. Ginzberg.

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