Setting the standards -- Dominant images of gender and power in antebellum America -- Portraits as politics -- A "fine looking body of women" : female political leaders on the rise -- Competing visual campaigns -- White public mothers and militant suffragists win the vote.
Summary:
"For as long as American women have battled for equitable political representation, those battles have been defined by images--whether drawn, etched, photographed, or filmed. Some of these have been flattering, many of them have been condescending, and some have been scabrous. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural tropes about the perceived nature of women's roles and abilities, and they have circulated both with and without conscious political objectives. Allison K. Lange takes a systematic look at American women's efforts to control the production and dissemination of images of them in the long battle for representation, from the mid-nineteenth-century onward"-- Provided by publisher.
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