{"product_id":"revolutionary-backlash-women-and-politics-in-the-early-american-republic-paperback-softback-9780812220735","title":"Revolutionary Backlash; Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812220735","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRevolutionary Backlash\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen and Politics in the Early American Republic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRosemarie Zagarri (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812220735\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 December 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 13 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.362 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"'Pathbreaking' is an appellation reserved for few books; 'field-changing' is an even rarer designation. Nonetheless Rosemarie Zagarri's \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Backlash\u003c\/i\u003e deserves both. She transforms the field of women's history and the standard political narrative that still dominates United States history.\"-\u003ci\u003eWilliam \u0026amp; Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Widely researched, gracefully written, and nicely illustrated. . . . A welcome corrective to both the usual women's history (without politics) and traditional political history (without women).\"-\u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book makes a significant contribution to the literature of American women's history by defining a period that has received too little attention. The writing is gorgeous. The research is first-rate.\"-Edith B. Gelles, author of \u003ci\u003eAbigail Adams: A Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An engaging book that successfully marries political practice and political theory with gender ideology. It is also a persuasive book. . . . What makes [Zagarri's] study compelling is the pervasive presence of women; we hear their voices as they communicate privately in letters and as they argue publicly for rights. Visual evidences let us see them at political gatherings.\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Backlash\u003c\/i\u003e argues otherwise. According to Rosemarie Zagarri, the debate over women's rights began not in the decades prior to 1848 but during the American Revolution itself. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlthough the period after the Revolution produced no collective movement for women's rights, women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male electoral activities. Federalists and Jeffersonians vied for women's allegiance and sought their support in times of national crisis. Women, in turn, attended rallies, organized political activities, and voiced their opinions on the issues of the day. After the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's \u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Rights of Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, a widespread debate about the nature of women's rights ensued. The state of New Jersey attempted a bold experiment: for a brief time, women there voted on the same terms as men.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYet as Rosemarie Zagarri argues in \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Backlash\u003c\/i\u003e, this opening for women soon closed. By 1828, women's politicization was seen more as a liability than as a strength, contributing to a divisive political climate that repeatedly brought the country to the brink of civil war. The increasing sophistication of party organizations and triumph of universal suffrage for white males marginalized those who could not vote, especially women. Yet all was not lost. Women had already begun to participate in charitable movements, benevolent societies, and social reform organizations. Through these organizations, women found another way to practice politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Rights of Woman\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Female Politicians\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Patriotism and Partisanship\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Women and the \"War of Politics\"\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. A Democracy-For Whom?\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Memory and Forgetting\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702059299096,"sku":"9780812220735","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/revolutionary-backlash-women-and-politics-in-the-early-american-republic-paperback-softback-9780812220735","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}