Lauren N. Haumesser

The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861 -- Lauren N. Haumesser, Paperback

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This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown's raid revealed that white manhood and its association with familial and national protection meant disparate--and ultimately incompatible--things in free and slave society. In fierce debates over the extension of slavery, gendered rhetoric hardened conflicts that ultimately led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Lauren Haumesser here traces how northern and southern Democrats and their partisan media organs used gender to make powerful arguments about slavery as the sectional crisis grew, from the emergence of the Republican Party to secession. Gendered charges and countercharges turned slavery into an intractable cultural debate, raising the stakes of every dispute and making compromise ever more elusive.



Author: Lauren N. Haumesser
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 230
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9781469671437

Product Tags:

Civil War America, Civil War Period (1850-1877), Gender Studies, History, History & Theory, History - Military / War, Lauren N. Haumesser, Paperback, Political Science, Social Science, United States, United States - History - Civil War, University of North Carolina Press

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