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

by Rebecca Edwards

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195116968
• ISBN13: 9780195116960
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"