Gender Remade - Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879-1912 (Hardcover)

Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers extended a long list of political rights and obligations to both men and women, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office. As the territory moved toward statehood, however, jury duty and constitutional co-sovereignty proved to be particularly controversial; in the end, 'modernization' and national integration brought disastrous losses for women until 1910, when political rights were partially restored. Losses to women's sovereignty were profound and enduring - a finding that points, not to rights and powers, but to constitutionalism and the power of social practice as Americans struggled to establish gender equality. Gender Remade is a significant contribution to the understudied legal history of the American West, especially the role that legal culture played in transitioning from territory to statehood.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Sandra F. VanBurkleo
Dimensions:	236 x 160 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-09802-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Law > English law > Private, property, family > Gender law Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-09802-5
Barcode:	9781107098022

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