Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era

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Oxford University Press, 27. nov. 1997 - 256 strani
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 explanation of why family values, women's political activities, and even candidates' sex lives remain hot-button issues in politics to this day.
 

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Introduction
3
1 The Political Crucible of the Civil War
12
2 Suffragists Prohibitionists and Republicans
39
3 Democrats and Domestic Economics
59
4 The Gospel of St Republican
75
5 Populism
91
6 Redemption
111
Illustrations
109
7 New Parameters of Power
133
8 Progressives and Protection 18971912
150
Epilogue
167
Notes
171
Selected References
213
Index
221
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Rebecca Edwards is Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College.

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