Angels in the Machinery Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era

by Edwards, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9780195116960
• ISBN10: 0195116968
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Angels in the Machinery offers a sweeping analysis of the centrality of gender to politics in the United States from the days of the Whigs to the early twentieth century. Author Rebecca Edwards shows that women in the U.S. participated actively and influentially as Republicans, Democrats, and leaders of third-party movements like Prohibitionism and Populism--decades before they won the right to vote--and in the process managed to transform forever the ideology of American party politics. Using cartoons, speeches, party platforms, news accounts, and campaign memorabilia, she offers a compelling explanation of why family values, women's political activities, and even candidates' sex lives remain hot-button issues in politics to this day.

Author Biography

Rebecca Edwards is Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. VII
Chronology of Key Elections and Other Events	p. XI
Introduction	p. 3
The Political Crucible of the Civil War	p. 12
Suffragists, Prohibitionists, and Republicans	p. 39
	p. 59
	p. 75
	p. 91
	p. 111
	p. 133
	p. 150
Epilogoe	p. 167
Notes	p. 171
Selected References	p. 213
Index	p. 221
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.