Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924

Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0252026888
ISBN-13 : 9780252026881
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Book Synopsis Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 by : Melanie Gustafson

Download or read book Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 written by Melanie Gustafson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed as groundbreaking since its publication, Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 explores the forces that propelled women to partisan activism in an era of widespread disfranchisement and provides a new perspective on how women fashioned their political strategies and identities before and after 1920. Melanie Susan Gustafson examines women's partisan history against the backdrop of women's political culture. Contesting the accepted notion that women were uninvolved in political parties before gaining the vote, Gustafson reveals the length and depth of women's partisan activism between the founding of the Republican Party, whose abolitionist agenda captured the loyalty of many women, and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Her account also looks at the complex interplay of partisan and nonpartisan activity; the fierce debates among women about how to best use their influence; the ebb and flow of enthusiasm for women's participation; and the third parties that fused the civic world of reform organizations with the electoral world of voting and legislation.


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