Gender Remade
Citizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 1879-1912
By Sandra F. VanBurkleo | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
About the book
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.
Editions of Gender Remade
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781107098022
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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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What is Gender Remade about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Gender Remade?
History and Archaeology > History > History: specific events and topics > Social and cultural history
Where can I read a sample of Gender Remade?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781107098022
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Gender Remade?
Sandra F. VanBurkleo
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Gender Remade is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781107098022)