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Author:

Kerber, Linda K.

Title:

No constitutional right to be ladies : women and the obligations of citizenship / Linda K. Kerber.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Hill and Wang,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

xxiv, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women and democracy--United States--History.
Women--History.--United States--History.
Citizenship--United States.
Political obligation.
Civics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-388) and index.

Contents:

5. "A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like American Ladies": Helen Feeney, Robert Goldberg, and Military Obligation in Contemporary America. 2. "I am Just as Free and Just as Good as You Are": The Obligation not to be a Vagrant 3. "Wherever you Find Taxey there Votey will be also": Representation and Taxes in the Nineteenth Century 4. "Woman is the Center of Home and Family Life": Gwendolyn Hoyt and Jury Service in the Twentieth Century 5. "A Constitutional Right to be Treated Like American Ladies": Helen Feeney, Robert Goldberg, and Military Obligation in Contemporary America.

Summary:

"Struggles over women's suffrage and the ERA have publicized how much women have related their struggle for equality to rights. That the history of citizens' obligations is also linked to gender has been less understood." "In this landmark book, the historian Linda K. Kerber opens up this important and neglected subject for the first time. She begins during the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," and ends in the present, when men and women still have different obligations to serve in the armed forces. She also sets her historical imagination to work on the vastly different issues of men's and women's obligations to refrain from vagrancy, to pay taxes, and to serve on juries." "By turning upside down the traditional paradigm of women's history as one of rights, Kerber shows us that there is no "right" to be excused from the obligations of citizenship. Hers is an invaluable new way of understanding the history of women in America - and American history more generally."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

9780809073832 (alk. paper)
0809073838 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39013749

LCCN:

98021393

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 305.42/0973

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids) — 305.42/0973

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville) — 305.42 K39

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

N3AX771 -- Drake Law School Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola) — 305.42 K39n

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City) — 305.42/0973

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PWAX296 -- Southeastern Community College - West Burlington - Yohe Memorial Library (West Burlington)