“Sex & Citizenship in Antebellum America” by Nancy Isenberg
Sex & Citizenship in Antebellum America by Nancy Isenberg offers a newfound perspective on the women’s suffrage movement. This perspective focuses not only on the significant campaigners and conventions that sustained the women’s rights movement, but on the political and social environment of the antebellum period. Isenberg states her purpose as such, This study hopes to change how scholars understand the origins of the women’s rights movement in America. The genius of the women’s rights movement lay…in linking rights to […]