Review Of We Mean To Be Counted
In We Mean To Be Counted, Elizabeth Varon charts the role of privileged women in Virginia politics in the decades leading to the outbreak of Civil War. Utilizing both published documents and private records, Varon persuasively conveys the influence that the elite women of Virginia had on the shifting political climate. Concentrating on the organizational, partisan, literary, and sectional role that women had in the male dominated political arena, Varon presents a clear, but narrow vision of feminine political endeavors in the Old South.
The first chapter of We Mean To Be Counted focuses on the benevolent organizations founded by Virginia women. Organizations such as Orphan Asylum of Lynchburg, the Union Benevolent Society, the Female Orphan Asylum, and the Virginia Temperance Society provided Virginia women the means for political activism under the auspices of charitable organizations. The incorporations of these groups granted a collective of married women legal control......
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