An army of women : gender and politics in gilded age Kansas
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
An army of women : gender and politics in gilded age Kansas
（Reconfiguring American political history）
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1997
Available at / 4 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-302) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As early as 1856, the women of Kansas knew the value of bold political statements. That year, 12 Lawrence women brandishing hatchets, axes and other implements attacked a log-cabin saloon and proceeded to dispose of "every drop of liquor they could find". In the decades that followed, Kansans witnessed the first state-wide suffrage campaign (it failed) and the first constitutional prohibition against alcohol (it succeeded). By 1887, Gilded Age Kansas had become home to reformers and agitators of all kinds and was dubbed the "great experimental ground of the nation". Looking at both private and public lives of women and men in rural and urban Kansas, Michael Goldberg offers sweeping evidence of the role of gender in Gilded Age American politics. Goldberg's broad scope and use of both traditional and unusual sources - including folkways, poems, songs and novels - allow readers to understand the movements both as part of a national framework and within the context of the state and local cultures that were their primary concern.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Gender, Politics, and Power
1. Myths and Realities: The Cultural Origins of Kansas Politics
2. "At Home among You": The Rise of the Kansas Woman Movement
3. The Woman Movement Triumphant
4. Like a Family: Building the Alliance Community
5. "For Betsy and Babies": From Farmers' Alliance to Populist Party
6. The Matrix of Reform
7. "An Army of Women"
Conclusion. The Boundries of Culture
Notes
Notes on Historiography and Srouces
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"