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Go get mother's picket sign : crossing spheres with the material culture of suffrage

Title: Go get mother's picket sign : crossing spheres with the material culture of suffrage / Cathleen Nista Rauterkus.
Author: Rauterkus, Cathleen Nista.
Publication: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, ©2010.

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Description

vii, 87 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This is the story of American suffragists who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers. American suffragists battled against the idea that women in America could not engage in politics without also creating a great void in the home. It was believed that if women allowed this void to occur, the decline and decay of the home life would destroy 19th and 20th century society. Men could not help women fill the role of homemaker, as it was thought that men had neither experience nor the ability to learn the order and method of caring for home and children. The family framework known by Victorians remained doomed. However, to counter this concept, suffragists created a new woman who functioned in both the home and the public world.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-84) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Suffrage explained -- Anti backlash -- Madonna and child -- Fashion -- Proper hostesses -- Entering public space -- Conclusion -- Appendix.

ISBN

9780761847885
076184788X
9780761847892
0761847898

LCCN

2009931507

OCLC

ocn443095576
443095576
SCSB-1539021

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library