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An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas (Reconfiguring American Political History)
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by Michael Lewis Goldberg
Sales Rank: 857654
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on 6-18-2008.
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 328 pages
Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press June 4, 1997
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0801855624
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0801855627
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"Goldberg succeeds in demonstrating the awesome importance of the story of women's political activism and suffrage efforts in Kansas and explores this material in a way that reveals its considerable complexity He establishes that the story of Kansas is a crucial element in the history of Gilded Age women's political activism." -- Ellen Carol DuBois, American Historical Review
"The ablest account to date of Kansas's most famous female Populists Goldberg has written an important book. More than anyone else to date, he has advanced understanding of the role that gender played in Gilded Age politics and in Populism." -- William F. Holmes, Georgia Historical Quarterly
"Goldberg breaks new ground discussing how shifting definitions of womanhood and manhood divided the leading families of Kansas towns from the farm families who surrounded them An engaging narrative about major conflicts in Kansas -- and national -- history." -- Kansas History
"Well-written and fascinating successful demonstration of the power of gender analysis to bring fresh and creative insights to the study of political culture." -- Nancy G. Garner, Montana: The Magazine of Western History
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"Goldberg has taken a staple topic of U.S. history and utterly renewed it in a stimulating, forcefully written narrative, the first attempt really to understand the role of women as political agents in the Populist movement at the local level. Groundbreaking not only in making attention to women's participation central to politics, but also in integrating the study of the environment with politics and culture, An Army of Women will serve as a model of the new multifaceted political history." -- Nancy Cott, Yale University
Reader Reviews
This review is from: An Army of Women: Gender and Politics in Gilded Age Kansas (Reconfiguring American Political History) (Paperback)
like the first reviewer I also had this assigned for a class and it was the book I enjoyed the most. I've done a lot of political organizing and am interested in what makes a social movement tick and why it succeeds or fails, and this book does a great job of getting into the heads of political activists. The story is also very interesting, there's a real drama to the way the author tells the story. It reminds me of another book on the Populists, The Populist Moment, by Lawrence Goodwyn, only this book is more concerned with how women and men related (or not) to each other, and how this affected the movement. The book also does a good job of covering women's politics, especially the woman suffrage movement. The author's argument is that women tried to be both committed to their gender and their political party, and couldn't balance the two, which I think in part is a problem feminists have today. I enjoyed it very much, and learned a lot.
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