Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic by Rosemarie Zagarri
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Overview: The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women’s rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash 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.
Although 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 , 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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