The struggle for equal adulthood : gender, race, age, and the fight for citizenship in antebellum America /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Gender & American culture.
UNC Press law publications. Women and the law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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.