The struggle for equal adulthood : gender, race, age, and the fight for citizenship in antebellum America /

The struggle for equal adulthood : gender, race, age, and the fight for citizenship in antebellum America /

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Main Author: Field, Corinne T., 1965- (Author)
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Gender & American culture.
UNC Press law publications.
Women and the law.
Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
Adulthood > United States > History > 19th century.
Equality before the law > United States > History > 19th century.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:HeinOnline UNC Press Law Publications
HeinOnline Women and the Law
HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue. Liberty and maturity in Enlightenment thought
  • Adult independence and the limits of revolution
  • Democratic citizenship as a stage of life
  • Chronological age and equal rights
  • The voyage of life and equal opportunity
  • Competing measures of mature citizenship
  • Perpetual minority and the failure of reconstruction
  • Epilogue. Aging and inequality.

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