Woman and the Republic
Author: Helen Kendrick Johnson
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohnson not only defines suffrage as dangerous to society, buy also argues that the majority of american women do not want it.
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Women of the Republic
Author: Linda K. Kerber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2000-11-09
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0807899844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWomen of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers, suppliers of food and clothing. Recruiters, whether patriot or tory, found men more willing to join the army when their wives and daughters could be counted on to keep the farms in operation and to resist enchroachment from squatters. "I have Don as much to Carrey on the warr as maney that Sett Now at the healm of government," wrote one impoverished woman, and she was right. Women of the Republic is the result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records. Achieving a remarkable comprehensiveness, it describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, describes the novels and histories women read and wrote, and analyzes their status in law and society. The rhetoric of the Revolution, full of insistence on rights and freedom in opposition to dictatorial masters, posed questions about the position of women in marriage as well as in the polity, but few of the implications of this rhetoric were recognized. How much liberty and equality for women? How much pursuit of happiness? How much justice? When American political theory failed to define a program for the participation of women in the public arena, women themselves had to develop an ideology of female patriotism. They promoted the notion that women could guarantee the continuing health of the republic by nurturing public-spirited sons and husbands. This limited ideology of "Republican Motherhood" is a measure of the political and social conservatism of the Revolution. The subsequent history of women in America is the story of women's efforts to accomplish for themselves what the Revolution did not.
The Woman Question in Plato's Republic
Author: Mary Townsend
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1498542700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Mary Townsend proposes that, contrary to the current scholarship on Plato's Republic, Socrates does not in fact set out to prove the weakness of women. Rather, she argues that close attention to the drama of the Republic reveals that Plato dramatizes the reluctance of men to allow women into the public sphere and offers a deeply aporetic vision of women’s nature and political position—a vision full of concern not only for the human community, but for the desires of women themselves.
Revolutionary Backlash
Author: Rosemarie Zagarri
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0812205553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the 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 book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson. Although the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male electoral activities. Federalists and Jeffersonians vied for women's allegiance and sought their support in times of national crisis. Women, in turn, attended rallies, organized political activities, and voiced their opinions on the issues of the day. After the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, a widespread debate about the nature of women's rights ensued. The state of New Jersey attempted a bold experiment: for a brief time, women there voted on the same terms as men. Yet as Rosemarie Zagarri argues in Revolutionary Backlash, this opening for women soon closed. By 1828, women's politicization was seen more as a liability than as a strength, contributing to a divisive political climate that repeatedly brought the country to the brink of civil war. The increasing sophistication of party organizations and triumph of universal suffrage for white males marginalized those who could not vote, especially women. Yet all was not lost. Women had already begun to participate in charitable movements, benevolent societies, and social reform organizations. Through these organizations, women found another way to practice politics.
The First Woman in the Republic
Author: Carolyn L. Karcher
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 850
ISBN-13: 9780822321637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage.
Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
Author: Linda K. Kerber
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepublic of Women
Author: Carol Pal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1139510754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRepublic of Women recaptures a lost chapter in the narrative of intellectual history. It tells the story of a transnational network of female scholars who were active members of the seventeenth-century republic of letters and demonstrates that this intellectual commonwealth was a much more eclectic and diverse assemblage than has been assumed. These seven scholars - Anna Maria van Schurman, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Marie de Gournay, Marie du Moulin, Dorothy Moore, Bathsua Makin and Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh - were philosophers, schoolteachers, reformers and mathematicians. They hailed from England, Ireland, Germany, France and the Netherlands, and together with their male colleagues - men like Descartes, Huygens, Hartlib and Montaigne - they represented the spectrum of contemporary approaches to science, faith, politics and the advancement of learning. Carol Pal uses their collective biography to reconfigure the intellectual biography of early modern Europe, offering a new, expanded analysis of the seventeenth-century community of ideas.
Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920
Author: Karen Offen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 711
ISBN-13: 1107188040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.
The Political Consequences of Being a Woman
Author: Kim Fridkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780231103039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Political Consequences of Being a Woman explores how women's perceived liabilities and capabilities make or, more often, break their campaigns.
First Ladies of the Republic
Author: Jeanne E. Abrams
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1479890502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in America America’s first First Ladies—Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison—had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks new ground by examining their lives as a group. From their visions for the future of the burgeoning new nation and its political structure, to ideas about family life and matrimony, these three women had a profound influence on one another’s views as they created the new role of presidential spouse. Martha, Abigail and Dolley walked the fine line between bringing dignity to their lives as presidential wives, and supporting their husbands’ presidential agendas, while at the same time, distancing themselves from the behavior, customs and ceremonies that reflected the courtly styles of European royalty that were inimical to the values of the new republic. In the face of personal challenges, public scrutiny, and sometimes vocal criticism, they worked to project a persona that inspired approval and confidence, and helped burnish their husbands’ presidential reputations. The position of First Lady was not officially authorized or defined, and the place of women in society was more restricted than it is today. These capable and path-breaking women not only shaped their own roles as prominent Americans and “First Ladies,” but also defined a role for women in public and private life in America.
