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No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies
Women and the Obligations of Citizenship
by Linda K. Kerber
ISBN: 0809073838
ISBN-13: 9780809073832
Format: Hardcover
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"A thoughtful book of formidable research and prose..." -- Michael Sherry
-- New York Times Book Review
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Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.75 pounds
Pages: 405
Publisher's Notes
An innovative new history of women as American citizens. Women have been citizens of the United States as long as the republic has existed, but their participation in citizenship has always differed from that of men. Struggles over women's suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment have publicized how much women have related their struggle for equality to rights. That the history of citizens' obligations is also linked to gender has been less well understood. In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," and ends in the present, when men and women still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces. She also sets her historical imagination to work on the vastly different issues of men's and women's obligations to refrain from vagrancy, to pay taxes, and to serve on juries. By turning upside down the traditional paradigm of women's history as one of rights, Kerber shows us that there is no "right" to be excused from the obligations of citizenship. Hers is an invaluable new way of understanding the history of women in America--and American history more generally.
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Hill&Wang, 1998. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 9" Tall. ISBN:0-8090-7383-8. 405pp..including index. Historian Kerber has produced a landmark book that opens the subject of womens' status as citizens and relates "rights" to "obligations", noting that since the Revolution the roles of men and women have been different, and still are in many areas, for good or ill..this book outlines the controversial views on the subject. Near new. ( more information) Offered by abccbooks.com (United States)
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