No constitutional right to be ladies : women and the obligations of citizenship / Linda K. Kerber.

Author
Kerber, Linda K. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Hill and Wang, 1998.
Description
xxiv, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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          "Struggles over women's suffrage and the ERA 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 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."--Jacket.
          Bibliographic references
          Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-388) and index.
          Contents
          1. "No Political Relation to the State": Conflicting Obligations in the Revolutionary ERA 2. "I am Just as Free and Just as Good as You Are": The Obligation not to be a Vagrant 3. "Wherever you Find Taxey there Votey will be also": Representation and Taxes in the Nineteenth Century 4. "Woman is the Center of Home and Family Life": Gwendolyn Hoyt and Jury Service in the Twentieth Century 5. "A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like American Ladies": Helen Feeney, Robert Goldberg, and Military Obligation in Contemporary America.
          ISBN
          • 0809073838 ((alk. paper))
          • 9780809073832 ((alk. paper))
          • 9780809073849
          • 0809073846
          LCCN
          98021393
          OCLC
          39013749
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