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Women in Public - Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Paperback)
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Women in Public - Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Paperback)
Series: The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History
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On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of
occupied New Orleans, ordered that any woman who publicly insulted
Union soldiers be subject to prosecution as a prostitute. Not all
nineteenth-century women, Butler learned, felt their place was in
the home. As his order implies, women were governed by an unwritten
code of public conduct, appeared on public streets, spoke out on
public issues, and were subjects of public policy. In "Women in
Public" noted historian Mary P. Ryan examines each of these issues
as it affected women in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco.
Contrary to current perceptions, Ryan contends, nineteenth-century
women appeared in public in a variety of roles. They took part in
civic ceremonies, from Independence Day celebrations to ethnic
festivals. Whether they sonsorted in parks designed for "ladies" or
in the increasingly regulated haunts of prostitutes, their place in
the everyday life of the streets became more segregated and
distinct. Denied access to the voting booth, they practiced
"outdoor politics," waving handkerchiefs at rallies--and wielding
brickbats in riots. Exploring little-noted aspects of
nineteenth-century political discourse, Ryan shows how gender and
sexual imagery in public language changed as the century
progressed. She analyzes the construction of boundaries between
private and public spheres and examines the American political
system's failure to accommodate difference within democratic order.
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