Discursive Politics and Social Change in Antebellum America
by
Natasha Kirsten Kraus
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman’s rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society’s very conception of “womanhood” in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Kraus demonstrates that...