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Author: Natasha Kirsten Kraus Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822390043 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 282
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In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman’s rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society’s very conception of “womanhood” in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Kraus demonstrates that this discursive change was a necessary condition of possibility for U.S. women to be popularly conceived as civil subjects within a Western democracy, and she shows that many rights, including suffrage, followed from the basic right to form legal contracts. She analyzes this new conception of women as legitimate economic actors in relation to antebellum economic and demographic changes as well as changes in the legal structure and social meanings of contract. Enabling Kraus’s retelling of the 1850s woman’s rights movement is her theory of “structural aporias,” which takes the institutional structures of any particular society as fully imbricated with the force of language. Kraus reads the antebellum relations of womanhood, contract, property, the economy, and the nation as a fruitful site for analysis of the interconnected power of language, culture, and the law. She combines poststructural theory, particularly deconstructive approaches to discourse analysis; the political economic history of the antebellum era; and the interpretation of archival documents, including woman’s rights speeches, petitions, pamphlets, and convention proceedings, as well as state legislative debates, reports, and constitutional convention proceedings. Arguing that her method provides critical insight not only into social movements and cultural changes of the past but also of the present and future, Kraus concludes A New Type of Womanhood by considering the implications of her theory for contemporary feminist and queer politics.
Author: Natasha Kirsten Kraus Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822390043 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 282
Book Description
In A New Type of Womanhood, Natasha Kirsten Kraus retells the history of the 1850s woman’s rights movement. She traces how the movement changed society’s very conception of “womanhood” in its successful bid for economic rights and rights of contract for married women. Kraus demonstrates that this discursive change was a necessary condition of possibility for U.S. women to be popularly conceived as civil subjects within a Western democracy, and she shows that many rights, including suffrage, followed from the basic right to form legal contracts. She analyzes this new conception of women as legitimate economic actors in relation to antebellum economic and demographic changes as well as changes in the legal structure and social meanings of contract. Enabling Kraus’s retelling of the 1850s woman’s rights movement is her theory of “structural aporias,” which takes the institutional structures of any particular society as fully imbricated with the force of language. Kraus reads the antebellum relations of womanhood, contract, property, the economy, and the nation as a fruitful site for analysis of the interconnected power of language, culture, and the law. She combines poststructural theory, particularly deconstructive approaches to discourse analysis; the political economic history of the antebellum era; and the interpretation of archival documents, including woman’s rights speeches, petitions, pamphlets, and convention proceedings, as well as state legislative debates, reports, and constitutional convention proceedings. Arguing that her method provides critical insight not only into social movements and cultural changes of the past but also of the present and future, Kraus concludes A New Type of Womanhood by considering the implications of her theory for contemporary feminist and queer politics.
Author: Janet Beer Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415219457 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 470
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This anthology publishes key documents in the history of American feminism that are currently only available in extract form or in archives. The collection also contains anti-feminist writings, by both men and women.
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 9780813523170 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 712
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In the School of Anti-Slavery, 1840-1866 is the first of six volumes of The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The collection documents the lives and accomplishments of two of America's most important social and political reformers. Though neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, each of them devoted fifty-five years to the cause. Their names were synonymous with woman suffrage in the United States and around the world as they mobilized thousands of women to fight for the right to a political voice. Opening when Stanton was twenty-five and Anthony was twenty, and ending when Congress sent the Fourteenth Amendment to the states for ratification, this volume recounts a quarter of a century of staunch commitment to political change. Readers will enjoy an extraordinary collection of letters, speeches, articles, and diaries that tells a story-both personal and public-about abolition, temperance, and woman suffrage. When all six volumes are complete, the Selected Papers of Stanton and Anthony will contain over 2,000 texts transcribed from their originals, the authenticity of each confirmed or explained, with notes to allow for intelligent reading. The papers will provide an invaluable resource for examining the formative years of women's political participation in the United States. No library or scholar of women's history should be without this original and important collection.
Author: Tracy A. Thomas Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 081478304X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 325
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"Thomas explores Stanton's philosophies and proposals for women's equality in marriage, divorce, and maternity, and reveals that the campaigns for equal gender roles in the family from the 1960's and '70's had nineteenth-century roots. Applying feminist legal theory, Thomas argues that Stanton's positions on family equality were strikingly progressive, providing parallels and solutions to the issues confronting women today."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Publisher: e-artnow ISBN: 8027224810 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 2608
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The History of the Women's Suffrage: The Origin of the Movement (Illustrated Edition)". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This edition covers the history of the suffragist movement from its beginnings to 1885. It was written and edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Anthony had for years saved letters, newspapers clippings, and similar materials of historical value to the women's suffrage movement. Therefore, in addition to chronicling the movement's activities, this 3 volumes include reminiscences of movement leaders and analyses of the historical causes of the condition of women. They also contain a variety of primary materials, including letters, newspaper clippings, speeches, court transcripts and decisions, and conference reports. Volume 3 includes essays by local women's rights activists who provided details about the history of the movement at the state level. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) was an American suffragist, social reformer and women's rights activist. Born into a Quaker family she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Anthony was also a close friend and confidant of Elizabeth Stanton. Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) was a suffragist and daughter of Stanton who contributed a chapter on the brief history of AWSA (American Woman Suffrage Association) Matilda Gage (1826–1898) was a suffragist, a Native American rights activist, an abolitionist and a freethinker.
Author: Natasha Kirsten Kraus
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Author: Natasha Kirsten Kraus
Author: Janet Beer
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author: Natasha Kirsten Kraus
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author: Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
Author: Tracy A. Thomas
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author: Elizabeth Cady Stanton