Introduction
Chapter 1. The Rights of Woman
Chapter 2. Female Politicians
Chapter 3. Patriotism and Partisanship
Chapter 4. Women and the "War of Politics"
Chapter 5. A Democracy—For Whom?
Epilogue: Memory and Forgetting
Acknowledgments
Spanning the first fifty years of the nation's history, Revolutionary Backlash uncovers women's forgotten role in early American politics and explores an alternative explanation for the emergence of the first women's rights movement.
Rosemarie Zagarri is Professor of History at George Mason University.
"'Pathbreaking' is an appellation reserved for few books;
'field-changing' is an even rarer designation. Nonetheless
Rosemarie Zagarri's Revolutionary Backlash deserves both. She
transforms the field of women's history and the standard political
narrative that still dominates United States history."—William &
Mary Quarterly
"Widely researched, gracefully written, and nicely illustrated. . .
. A welcome corrective to both the usual women's history (without
politics) and traditional political history (without women)."—North
Carolina Historical Review
"This book makes a significant contribution to the literature of
American women's history by defining a period that has received too
little attention. The writing is gorgeous. The research is
first-rate."—Edith B. Gelles, author of Abigail Adams: A Writing
Life
"An engaging book that successfully marries political practice and
political theory with gender ideology. It is also a persuasive
book. . . . What makes [Zagarri's] study compelling is the
pervasive presence of women; we hear their voices as they
communicate privately in letters and as they argue publicly for
rights. Visual evidences let us see them at political
gatherings."—American Historical Review
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