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Gender Remade - Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879-1912 (Paperback)
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Gender Remade - Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879-1912 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
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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.
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