Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan explores how diverse women understood, and acted upon, their varied constraints and worldviews in American society from the Revolution through the Civil War. Combining a review of the vast scholarship on early nineteenth-century gender and women with an assemblage of intriguing primary documents, this volume outlines three phases in women&#39;s engagement in civic and political activities: first as 'deferential domestics,' then as 'companionate co-workers,' and finally as 'passionate partisans.' The book includes a selection of primary documents.<BR />