| A Reform Against Nature: Woman Suffrage and the Rethinking of American Citizenship, 1840-1920 Contributor(s): Vacca, Carolyn Summers (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820458112 ISBN-13: 9780820458113 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $90.01 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Campaigns & Elections - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 324.623 |
| LCCN: 2003007661 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 190 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Debates over women's suffrage filled the pages of nineteenth-century articles, speeches, and books. Early natural rights justifications gave way to those based on women's special characteristics - characteristics used by vehement anti-suffragists to justify women's exclusion from the polity. These questions over natural rights reappeared in immigration and naturalization debates, which also attracted the print media's attention. This shift in the rationale for inclusion in the suffrage debates paved the way for a reorientation of American views - from citizenship as a right, to citizenship as a privilege - a view that informed America's response to questions of immigration and naturalization in the early twentieth century. |