Imagining citizenship in black and white: domestic literature, 'true womanhood,' and the creation of civic identity in antebellum America
This dissertation is a cultural history of how race and gender influenced nineteenth-century citizenship. The gender ideology of true womanhood is generally described as a practice of white middle-class women; however it was also used to define racial difference and to attach a civic purpose to the...
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University of Iowa
2013
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5997 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7478&context=etd |