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03215aam a22004458i 4500 001 17C7E614803411ED944134D030ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221220010056 008 220225t20222022gau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2022003492 020 $a 0820362611 020 $a 9780820362618 035 $a (OCoLC)1303569657 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d UKMGB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK1759 $b .S67 2022 082 00 $a 323.60973 $2 23/eng/20220308 100 1 $a Stanfield, Susan J., $d 1964- $e author. 245 10 $a Rewriting citizenship : $b women, race, and nineteenth-century print culture / $c by Susan J. Stanfield. 246 3 $a Women, race, and 19th century print culture 263 $a 2209 264 1 $a Athens, Georgia : $b The University of Georgia Press, $c [2022] 300 $a 1 volume : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Rewriting Citizenship is a cultural history that reveals how race and gender influenced nineteenth-century citizenship. By focusing on "domestic literature"-cookbooks, novels, household manuals, newspapers, magazines, sermons, and even diaries-Susan J. Stanfield finds that women imbued the quotidian with "civic purpose." Indeed, it was more than the social reformers and political activists who argued that women should have a role in government. Because many of these women saw their civic status as "different"-though not necessarily inferior to-that of men, they made forays into the public sphere through print culture. In Stanfield's estimation, this helped women fulfill culturally constructed ideas of femininity-maintaining the "authority of their womanhood"-while they also actively redefined citizenship by linking their domestic work to nation building. Unsurprisingly, middle-class white women sought to differentiate themselves from immigrants, the working poor, and women of color by distinguishing between household labor and household management. But middle-class African American women also used the "politics of respectability" to enhance their own status. Like their white counterparts, these women argued that their well-ordered homes proved that their husbands and father were patriarchs and were therefore worthy of citizenship and the vote"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a Citizenship $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Sex discrimination against women $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Race discrimination $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 6 $a Discrimination a l'egard des femmes $z Etats-Unis $x Histoire $y 19e siecle. 650 7 $a Citizenship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00861909 650 7 $a Race discrimination. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086465 650 7 $a Sex discrimination against women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114376 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780820362601 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020900.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=17C7E614803411ED944134D030ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search