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Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States (Hardcover)
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Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
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Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the
eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood
and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and
the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized
the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political
behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female
domesticity in national development. These histories had created a
narrative of exclusion that legitimated the variety of citizenship
considered suitable for women, which they argued should be
constructed in a very different way from that of men: women's
relationship to the nation should be considered in terms of their
participation in civil society and the domestic realm. But the
throes of the Revolution and the emergence of the first woman's
rights movement challenged the dominance of that narrative and
complicated the history writers' interpretation of women's history
and the idea of domestic citizenship. In Citizenship and the
Origins of Women's History in the United States, Teresa Anne Murphy
traces the evolution of women's history from the late eighteenth
century to the time of the Civil War, demonstrating that competing
ideas of women's citizenship had a central role in the ways those
histories were constructed. This intellectual history examines the
concept of domestic citizenship that was promoted in the popular
writing of Sarah Josepha Hale and Elizabeth Ellet and follows the
threads that link them to later history writers, such as Lydia
Maria Child and Carolyn Dall, who challenged those narratives and
laid the groundwork for advancing a more progressive woman's rights
agenda. As woman's rights activists recognized, citizenship
encompassed activities that ranged far beyond specific legal rights
for women to their broader terms of inclusion in society, the
economy, and government. Citizenship and the Origins of Women's
History in the United States demonstrates that citizenship is at
the heart of women's history and, consequently, that women's
history is the history of nations.
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