Abstract
Abstract This chapter assesses what some viewed as the impudence of the Weston sisters and the significance of this construction of political womanliness for understanding the import of horizontal kinship structures and the language of fictive kinship in antebellum reform. Gendered female impudence meant the women were seen as having a very confident attitude, insolent disrespect, obstinate disobedience, and contemptuous disregard for male authority. They challenged all habits of subordination and deference in the American church and social order. Within the horizontal structures of their sibling families, the female authority of their households and their connections to voluntary associations, they constructed a sorority of overlapping blood and fictive kin that helped abolish slavery.
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