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Author:

Cutter, Barbara.

Title:

Domestic devils, battlefield angels : the radicalism of American womanhood, 1830-1865 / Barbara Cutter.

Publisher:

Northern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

x, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--United States--History--19th century.
Women in public life--United States--History--19th century.
Sex role--United States--History--19th century.
United States--Social conditions--To 1865.
United States--Moral conditions.
Vrouwen.
Openbaar leven.
Radicalisme.
Femmes--États-Unis--Histoire--19e siècle.
Femmes dans la vie publique--États-Unis--Histoire--19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe--États-Unis--Histoire--19e siècle.
États-Unis--Conditions sociales--19e siècle.
États-Unis--Conditions morales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-276) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Angels, devils, and redemptive womanhood. -- "Drunk with murderous longing": the problem of the respectable murderess. -- The "fallen woman" in Antebellum America. -- Redemptive womanhood and African Americans in the Antebellum North. -- Public women: lecturing and the logic of redemptive womanhood. -- The impending crisis, male immorality, and female heroism. -- "Like a second Joan of Arc": imagining women's war. -- Angels on the battlefield. -- Conclusion: The legacies of redemptive womanhood.

ISBN:

9780875803180 (alk. paper)
0875803180 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2003052701

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SXPC124 -- Greene Public Library (Greene)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)