Home FrontsUnlike studies of nineteenth century culture that perpetuate a dichotomy of a public, male world set against a private, female world, Lora Romeros Home Fronts shows the many, nuanced, and sometimes contradictory cultural planes on which struggles for authority unfolded in antebellum America. Romero remaps the literary landscape of the last century by looking at the operations of domesticity on the frontier as well as within the middle class home and