In the shifting early nineteenth-century terrain of politics, patriotism or “the love of the fatherland” was one of a number of socially acceptable forms of being political available to women. Just as women could turn an emotional authenticity to some political advantage, in the same way, men’s political authority could be undermined by questioning their masculinity, their inclinations to femininity, or even a penchant for taking women seriously.
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