No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Women and the Obligations of Citizenship

Name: No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
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ISBN: 9780809073849

ISBN-10: 0809073846

ISBN-13: 9780809073849

Edition: 1999

Authors: Linda K. Kerber

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This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," up to the present, when men and women, regardless of their marital status, still have different obligations to serve in the Armed Forces. An original and compelling consideration of American law and culture, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies emphasizes the dangers of excluding women from other civic responsibilities as well, such as loyalty oaths and…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



"No Political Relation to the State": Conflicting Obligations in the Revolutionary ERA



"I am Just as Free and Just as Good as You Are": The Obligation not to be a Vagrant



"Wherever you Find Taxey there Votey will be also": Representation and Taxes in the Nineteenth Century



"Woman is the Center of Home and Family Life": Gwendolyn Hoyt and Jury Service in the Twentieth Century



"A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like American Ladies": Helen Feeney, Robert Goldberg, and Military Obligation in Contemporary America


Epilogue


Notes


A Note on Sources


Index