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Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States
Teresa Anne Murphy
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Description for Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States
Hardcover. Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States challenges twenty-first-century assumptions of nineteenth-century women's history by tracing the ways women's history was politicized, particularly in light of the growing activism of women and the first woman's rights movement. Series: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBAH; HBJK; JPVH1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in national development. These histories had created a narrative of exclusion that legitimated the variety of citizenship considered suitable for women, which they argued should be constructed in a very different way from that of men: women's relationship to the nation should be ... Read more
Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in national development. These histories had created a narrative of exclusion that legitimated the variety of citizenship considered suitable for women, which they argued should be constructed in a very different way from that of men: women's relationship to the nation should be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812244892
SKU
V9780812244892
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About Teresa Anne Murphy
Teresa Anne Murphy is Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University and author of Ten Hours' Labor: Religion, Reform, and Gender in Early New England.
Reviews for Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States
This thoughtful and stimulating intellectual history takes a fresh look at history writing by and about women between the American Revolution and Civil War. It makes an original and distinctive contribution by connecting changing narratives about women's history to larger debates about the nature of women's citizenship. -Anne M. Boylan, University of Delaware Teresa Anne Murphy's fascinating and important ... Read more