An Army of Women

Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6362-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 540 g

Reihe: Reconfiguring American Political History

How political activists in the Populist Party and the Woman Movement sought to create a role for women while retaining the support of men

Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title

Looking at both the private and public lives of women and men in rural and urban Kansas, Michael Lewis Goldberg offers sweeping evidence of the role gender played in influencing Gilded Age politics. In An Army of Women, he analyzes how political activists in the Populist Party and the Woman Movement sought to create a role for women while retaining the support of men. When these activists employed the often slippery symbols of masculinity and femininity, they found that gendered meanings often changed with the shifting political context. Their ideas and assumptions about gender helped determine their ideologies, strategies, the fate of their movements, and their impact on 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldberg, Michael Lewis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Goldberg, Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis Goldberg is an associate professor of American Studies in the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences program at the University of Washington, Bothell. His work includes Breaking New Ground: American Women, 1800-1848, and No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States (coauthor).