As early as 1856, the women of Kansas knew the value of bold political statements. That year, 12 Lawrence women brandishing hatchets, axes and other implements attacked a log-cabin saloon and proceeded to dispose of "every drop of liquor they could find". In the decades that followed, Kansans witnessed the first state-wide suffrage campaign (it failed) and the first constitutional prohibition against alcohol (it succeeded). By 1887, Gilded Age Kansas had become home to reformers and agitators of all kinds and was dubbed the "great experimental ground of the nation". Looking at both private and public lives of women and men in rural and urban Kansas, Michael Goldberg offers sweeping evidence of the role of gender in Gilded Age American politics. Goldberg's broad scope and use of both traditional and unusual sources - including folkways, poems, songs and novels - allow readers to understand the movements both as part of a national framework and within the context of the state and local cultures that were their primary concern.
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"Goldberg has taken a staple topic of U.S. history and utterly renewed it in a stimulating, forcefully written narrative, the first attempt really to understand the role of women as political agents in the Populist movement at the local level. Groundbreaking not only in making attention to women's participation central to politics, but also in integrating the study of the environment with politics and culture, 'An Army of Women' will serve as a model of the new multifaceted political history."--Nancy Cott, Yale University
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Höhe: 229 mm
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Michael Lewis Goldberg is assistant professor in the Liberal Studies Program at the University of Washington, Bothell. His work includes 'Breaking New Ground: American Women, 1800-1848'. 'Reconfiguring American Political History'
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University of Washington, Bothell
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Gender, Politics, and Power
1. Myths and Realities: The Cultural Origins of Kansas Politics
2. "At Home among You": The Rise of the Kansas Woman Movement
3. The Woman Movement Triumphant
4. Like a Family: Building the Alliance Community
5. "For Betsy and Babies": From Farmers' Alliance to Populist Party
6. The Matrix of Reform
7. "An Army of Women"
Conclusion. The Boundries of Culture
Notes
Notes on Historiography and Srouces
Index