| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Free Hearts and Free Homes: Gender and American Antislavery Politics. By Michael D. Pier-son. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xvi, 250 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2782-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5455-7.)
Michael D. Pierson points out that those studying gender and antislavery often focus on "radicals," neglecting a more "broad coalition of antislavery reformers," while those examining antislavery politics concentrate on parties' "legislative and economic" agendas (p. 4). Yet, Pierson argues, antebellum political parties also appealed to voters' beliefs about gender. Free Hearts and Free Homes analyzes how the Liberty party, the Free Soil party, the Democratic party, and the Republican party marshaled "gender ideologies to demarcate themselves from their electoral rivals" (p. 4).	1
Drawing on eighty antebellum newspapers, Pierson combines impressive archival research with an inclusive approach to gender studies. His desire to remedy scholars' neglect of gendered aspects of political party ideology leads him to incorporate sources from party newspapers and publications that have previously been overlooked. Pierson is also part of a growing group of scholars who have begun to expand the ways we study gender, considering masculinity as well as femininity.	. . .

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