ISBN:
128047033X
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9781280470332
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9780195353693
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 232 p)
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ill
Parallel Title:
Print version Angels in the Machinery : Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era
DDC:
306.2/082
Keywords:
Political parties History
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Women Political activity 19th century
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History
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Political parties ; United States ; History
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United States ; History ; 19th century
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Women ; Political activity ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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United States History 19th century
Abstract:
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 managed to transform forever the ideology of American party politics. Using cartoons, speeches, party platforms, news accounts, and campaign memorabilia, she offers a compelling
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Chronology of Key Elections and Other Events""; ""Introduction""; ""1: The Political Crucible of the Civil War""; ""Whig and Democratic Women Before the War""; ""Infringing upon Our Rights: Democrats and the Patriarchal Family""; ""An Impression of Domestic Harmony: Republicans and the Maternal Family""; ""Black Women in the South and the Limits of Republicanism""; ""2: Suffragists, Prohibitionists, and Republicans""; ""The Home Protection Party""; ""Suffrage and Party Loyalty""
Description / Table of Contents:
""3: Democrats and Domestic Economics""""Democratic Domesticity""; ""Women and Tariff Reform""; ""4: The Gospel of St. Republican""; ""The Party of the Home""; ""Women in Defense of the GOP""; ""5: Populism""; ""Populist Domesticity""; ""Women and the People�s Party""; ""6: Redemption""; ""Unbalanced Men and Hysterical Women: The Republican Attack on Populism""; ""Redemption in the South: The Democratic Attack on Populism""; ""7: New Parameters of Power""; ""Men and Electoral Politics After Redemption""; ""Race, Class, and Region after Redemption""
Description / Table of Contents:
""8: Progressives and Protection, 1897�1912""""The Manly Virtues in Public Policy""; ""Women and Electoral Politics""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Selected References""; ""Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-220) and index
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