| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Prelude: Posing the woman question in 1838 -- Observing American democracy -- Domesticating democracy -- To make democracy consistent -- Interlude: Self-government on trial in 1863 -- Amending democracy -- Reconstructing the woman question -- Unresolved questions -- Epilogue: New women, new questions in 1893 |
| Summary |
"Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of the arguments, advocacy, and commentary about the so-called woman question and American popular government from the 1830s through the 1890s. What did it mean, a range of observers asked, that the world's first mass democracy only enfranchised white men? The inconsistency of women's "political non-existence" provoked a movement for change, led by familiar figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Movement voices were one part of a noisy and often discordant chorus. Only by attending to this broad range of competing voices can we understand popular political thought in nineteenth-century America"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Democracy -- United States
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Democracy.
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Politics and government.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Suffrage.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140422
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| Subject |
United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2023032470 |
| ISBN |
9780197685860 |
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0197685862 |
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0197685846 |
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9780197685853 |
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0197685854 |
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9780197685846 |
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