{"product_id":"political-work-of-northern-women-lyde-cullen-sizer-9780807848852","title":"Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of \u003ci\u003eUncle Tom's Cabin\u003c\/i\u003e through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a \"rhetoric of unity,\" giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyde Cullen Sizer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807848859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807848852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/18\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 5.81w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2000 pg. 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2000 pg. 768","brand":"Lyde Cullen Sizer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013791920383,"sku":"9780807848852","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1124a5a7-8190-47f3-b805-4edb71a7fbd4.jpg?v=1767744794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/political-work-of-northern-women-lyde-cullen-sizer-9780807848852","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}