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Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era

By Rebecca Edwards

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0195116968, 9780195116960, 9781423759843
LCC
HQ1236.5.U6 E39 1997
Open Library ID
OL664992M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (16200931 bytes)
Pages
256\253
Topic
Technique
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Angels in the Machinery offers a sweeping analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early twentieth century. Author Rebecca Edwards shows that women in the U.S. participated actively and influentially as Republicans, Democrats, and leaders of third-party movements like Prohibitionism and Populism--decades before they won the right to vote--and in the process managed to transform forever the ideology of American party politics. Using cartoons, speeches, party platforms, news accounts, and campaign memorabilia, she offers a compelling explanation of why family values, women's political activities, and even candidates' sex lives remain hot-button issues in politics to this day.

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