Gender Remade - Citizenship, Suffrage, Public Power in New Northwest, 1879 1912

Informationen zum Autor Sandra F. VanBurkleo is Professor of History at Wayne State University, Detroit. Zusammenfassung Gender Remade explores the passage from territory to state in the Pacific Northwest! especially in Washington! showing that jury duty was as important as the right to vote in late nineteenth-century campaigns for constitutional equality and offers ways to remedy the neglect of state and territorial studies among constitutional historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. 'We are kings and queens': introduction; 2. 'She does not go into utter slavery': toward equality and co-sovereignty; 3. 'Equal rights with man in every respect': practicing mixed-sex democracy; 4. 'A compound creature of the statute': jury duty and social disintegration; 5. 'A double head in nature ... is a monstrosity': internecine warfare; 6. 'Fraternalism permeates the atmosphere': remaking gender and public power; 7. 'We contemplate no sweeping reform': constitutionalizing the home vote; 8. 'Every woman is a law unto herself': rights, obligations, and legitimacy; Afterword: a bibliographic commentary.

Product details

• Authors: Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Sandra F. (Wayne State University) Vanburkleo, VanBurkleo Sandra F.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781107484085
• ISBN: 978-1-107-48408-5
• No. of pages: 351
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, LAW / Gender & the Law, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Gender & the law, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, US West, Law and society, gender issues