Revolutionary Backlash Women and Politics in the Early American Republic

Name: Revolutionary Backlash Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
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ISBN: 9780812240276

ISBN-10: 0812240278

ISBN-13: 9780812240276

Edition: 2008

Authors: Rosemarie Zagarri

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The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this study explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson. Although the period produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party…

Book details

List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



The Rights of Woman



Female Politicians



Patriotism and Partisanship



Women and the "War of Politics"



A Democracy--For Whom?


Epilogue: Memory and Forgetting


Acknowledgments