We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)
by Elizabeth R. Varon

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Summary of We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)

Through their voluntary associations, legislative petitions, presence at political meetings and rallies, and published appeals, Virginia's elite white women lent their support to such controversial reform enterprises as the temperance movement and the American Colonization Society, to the electoral campaigns of the Whig and Democratic Parties, to the literary defense of slavery, and to the causes of Unionism and secession. Against the backdrop of increasing sectional tension, Varon argues, these women struggled to fulfill a paradoxical mandate: to act both as partisans who boldly expressed their political views and as mediators who infused public life with the "feminine" virtues of compassion and harmony.

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