"Belonging to the world" : women's rights and American constitutional culture

Author(s)

• VanBurkleo, Sandra F.

Bibliographic Information

"Belonging to the world" : women's rights and American constitutional culture

Sandra F. VanBurkleo

（Organization of American Historians bicentennial essays on the Bill of Rights）

Oxford University Press, 2001

• : cloth
• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780195069716

Description

"Belonging to the World" surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. A work of historical synthesis, the book aims to build bridges between fields long thought to be unbridgeable - among them the history of women, American constitutional and legal history, political theory, and law. It delineates the shifting relationships between American law practice and women, both within the family and elsewhere, as Americans tried to implement republican constitutions in an emerging capitalist society without remaking patriarchal families and governments. Women's stories and voices are used to drive home the extraordinary range and persistence of female rebellion since the 1630s; of particular importance are discussions of women's ongoing battles for freedom of speech and access to the marketplace.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780195069723

Description

'Belonging to the World' surveys the treatment of women in American law from the nation's earliest beginnings in British North America to the present. An original work of historical synthesis, the book aims to build bridges between fields long thought to be unbridgeable - among them the history of women, American constitutional and legal history, political theory, and law. It delineates the shifting relationships between American law practice and women, both within the family and elsewhere, as Americans tried to implement republican constitutions in an emerging capitalist society without remaking patriarchal families and governments. And it uses women's stories and voices to drive home the extraordinary range and persistence of female rebellion since the 1630s; of particular importance are discussions of women's ongoing battles for freedom of speech and access to the marketplace.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface Preface Acknowledgments Part I. "The Way of Obedience": Foundations 1: Governing Women in British North America 2: Toward the Revolutionary Settlement Part II. "Talk is the Fountain-Head of All Things": Republican Speech Communities and Coequality 3: Law, Gender, and Domestic Culture 4: Republican Speech Communities 5: Toward Coequality and Self-Possession 6: Capitalism and the New American Empire 7: The Civil War Settlement Part III. "Governments Try Themselves": Democratic Suffrage Communities and Equality 8: Democratic Suffrage Communities 9: Economic Protection versus Equal Rights 10: Physical Protection versus Self-Sovereignty 11: The Civil Rights Settlement 12: Afterword Notes Bibliographic Essay Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA50747431
• ISBN:
  • 0195069714
  • 0195069722
• LCCN: 00029349
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xix, 409 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KF4758
  • DC21 : 323.3/4/0973
  • NDC9 : 367.253
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Women -- United States -- Civil rights -- History
  • LCSH : Women's rights -- United States -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA12130255