Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics by Rebecca Edwards

By Rebecca Edwards

Angels within the Machinery bargains a sweeping research of the centrality of gender to politics within the usa from the times of the Whigs to the early 20th century. writer Rebecca Edwards indicates that ladies within the U.S. participated actively and influentially as Republicans, Democrats, and leaders of third-party events like Prohibitionism and Populism--decades ahead of they gained the proper to vote--and within the method controlled to remodel ceaselessly the ideology of yankee social gathering politics. utilizing cartoons, speeches, celebration systems, information money owed, and crusade memorabilia, she bargains a compelling clarification of why relatives values, women's political actions, or even applicants' intercourse lives stay hot-button concerns in politics to this day.

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