Lisa M. Vetere - Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity (review) - Legacy 22:1 Legacy 22.1 (2005) 73-74 Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity. By Susan Zaeske. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. 253 pp. $49.95 /$19.95 paper. The relationship between middle-class antebellum white women and the various reform movements to which they chose to dedicate seemingly inexhaustible supplies of time and energy has sparked some of the most lively dialogue among literary, historical, and cultural scholars of nineteenth-century America, including Christine Stansell, Lori Ginzberg, Karen Sánchez-Eppler, Barbara Epstein, and Jean Fagan Yellin. At first glance, Signatures of Citizenship might not seem to have much to add to this conversation. However, Susan Zaekse's study of the rhetorical and political power of antebellum women's antislavery petitions recounts...