A Reform Against Nature
Subtitle: Woman Suffrage and the Rethinking of American Citizenship, 1840-1920 (American University Studies Series IX, History)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Peter Lang
Published: July 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780820458113
Subjects: General; Political Process - Elections; Political Freedom & Security - General; Women's Studies - General; Political Science; Politics - Current Events; Citizenship; History; Suffrage; United States; Vrouwenkiesrecht.; Women; gtt; Politics/International Relations
Description: "Debates over women's suffrage filled the pages of nineteenth-century articles, speeches, and books. Early natural rights justifications gave way to those based on women's special characteristics - characteristics used by vehement anti-suffragists to justify women's exclusion from the polity. These questions over natural rights reappeared in immigration and naturalization debates, which also attracted the print media's attention. This shift in the rationale for inclusion in the suffrage debates paved the way for a reorientation of American views - from citizenship as a right, to citizenship as a privilege - a view that informed America's response to questions of immigration and naturalization in the early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.