Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts of Women’s Political Status in the Age of Jackson

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. The Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment - An American Perspective 3
6. The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic 22
7. Equity vs. Equality: Emerging Concepts of Women’s Political Status in the Age of Jackson 55
8. “Co-Laborers in the Cause”: Women in the Ante-bellum Nativist Movement 77
9. “Moral Suasion is Moral Balderdash”: Women, Politics, and Social Activism in the 1850s 97
10. Harlots or Heroines? 119
11. Women in the Southern Farmers’ Alliance: A Reconsideration of the Role and Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth- Century South 164
12. The Domestication of Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780–1920 184
13. Immigrant Women and Consumer Protest: The New York City Kosher Meat Boycott of 1902 212
14. Fighting for a Future 227
15. Women and the Socialist Party 247
16. Other Socialists: Native-Born Immigrant Women in the Socialist Party of America, 1901–1917 265
17. Housewives, Socialists, and the Politics of Food: The 1917 New York Cost-of-Living Protests 284
18. Defining Socialist Womanhood: the Women’s Page of the Jewish Daily Forward in 1919 316
19. Socialism and Women in the United States, 1900–1917 339