Angels in the Machinery Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era

Name: Angels in the Machinery Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era
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ISBN: 9780195116960

ISBN-10: 0195116968

ISBN-13: 9780195116960

Edition: 1997

Authors: Rebecca Edwards

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Angels in the Machinery offers a sweeping analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early twentieth century. Author Rebecca Edwards shows that women in the U.S. participated actively and influentially as Republicans, Democrats, and leaders of third-party movements like Prohibitionism and Populism decades before they won the right to vote, and in the process, transformed forever the ideology of American party politics. Using cartoons, speeches, party platforms, news accounts, and campaign memorabilia, she offers a compelling explanation of why family values, womens political activities, and even candidates sex lives remain…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/27/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Chronology of Key Elections and Other Events


Introduction



The Political Crucible of the Civil War



Suffragists, Prohibitionists, and Republicans




















Epilogoe


Notes


Selected References


Index