Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776-1920

As a result, American women played a peripheral role in constitutional history until 1920. This pamphlet looks at this role as it developed throughout the nineteenth-century, culminating in 1920 with the passing of the women's sufferage amendment in 1920.

About the author

Jean H. Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College. She is the author of several books, including Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists; Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography; and Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, and editor of Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited.

Product details

• Authors: Jean H Baker, Jean H. Baker
• Publisher: American Historical Association
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780872291638
• ISBN: 978-0-87229-163-8
• No. of pages: 56
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 217 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 204 g
• Series: New Essays on American Constit
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law