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In the second half of the 20th century, "rights talk," characteristic of political and legal discourse in the United States, has been forcefully invoked by minorities and women in their respective quests for equal treatment under the law. In No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies, University of Iowa history professor Linda K. Kerber looks at the other side of the rights equation: the issue of obligations. Kerber argues that while men's rights have been bought by their obligations to public service, for women the obligations were to family. Absolution from public service--the constitutional right to be "ladies"--has clear roots in the principle of coverture, by which a woman's legal identity is absorbed by a man's, be it her father, husband, or other protector. This, Kerber writes, is not a boon for women. Women have always had obligations, she notes, it is merely "the forms and objects of demand" that have differed, and disparities between the obligations of men and women have affected women's qualitative ability to exercise rights, such as trial by a jury of one's peers. Kerber presents a series of narratives focusing on particular women whose situations became catalysts for political and legal change and the women, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who helped effect those transformations. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies is engrossing reading for layperson and scholar alike. --Julia Riches --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Abby and Julia Smith, two 19th-century women who challenged their obligation to pay taxes because they were denied the vote, are among the many extraordinary women portrayed in this fascinating history by the author of Women of the Republic and Toward an Intellectual History of Women. In invoking such figures, Kerber illustrates the development of American law defining women's civic obligations from Revolutionary times to the present. Beginning with the distasteful common law doctrine of coverture, Kerber, a history professor at the University of Iowa, describes how the law, past and present, has shielded women from civic obligations otherwise exacted from men. Kerber finds that coverture, which reduced women's civic identities to those of their husbands, "camouflage[d] practices that made them more vulnerable to other forms of public and private power." With this insight, she links women's exemption from civic duties such as jury or military service to the denial of women's civic rights, such as suffrage, a jury of her peers, aid, citizenship, property, even her body. Backing this thoughtful analysis, Kerber presents meticulous research in a nonideological and lively manner. In each of Kerber's discussions of specific civic obligations and rights, she depicts a process of continuous evolution. By combining careful analysis of the law with examples of women challenging the status quo, Kerber offers a unique and powerful history of the continuing struggle for equality.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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In the second half of the 20th century, "rights talk," characteristic of political and legal discourse in the United States, has been forcefully invoked by minorities and women in their respective quests for equal treatment under the law. In No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies, University of Iowa history professor Linda K. Kerber looks at the other side of the rights equation: the issue of obligations. Kerber argues that while men's rights have been bought by their obligations to public service, for women the obligations were to family. Absolution from public service--the constitutional right to be "ladies"--has clear roots in the principle of coverture, by which a woman's legal identity is absorbed by a man's, be it her father, husband, or other protector. This, Kerber writes, is not a boon for women. Women have always had obligations, she notes, it is merely "the forms and objects of demand" that have differed, and disparities between the obligations of men and women have affected women's qualitative ability to exercise rights, such as trial by a jury of one's peers. Kerber presents a series of narratives focusing on particular women whose situations became catalysts for political and legal change and the women, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who helped effect those transformations. No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies is engrossing reading for layperson and scholar alike. --Julia Riches --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
Abby and Julia Smith, two 19th-century women who challenged their obligation to pay taxes because they were denied the vote, are among the many extraordinary women portrayed in this fascinating history by the author of Women of the Republic and Toward an Intellectual History of Women. In invoking such figures, Kerber illustrates the development of American law defining women's civic obligations from Revolutionary times to the present. Beginning with the distasteful common law doctrine of coverture, Kerber, a history professor at the University of Iowa, describes how the law, past and present, has shielded women from civic obligations otherwise exacted from men. Kerber finds that coverture, which reduced women's civic identities to those of their husbands, "camouflage[d] practices that made them more vulnerable to other forms of public and private power." With this insight, she links women's exemption from civic duties such as jury or military service to the denial of women's civic rights, such as suffrage, a jury of her peers, aid, citizenship, property, even her body. Backing this thoughtful analysis, Kerber presents meticulous research in a nonideological and lively manner. In each of Kerber's discussions of specific civic obligations and rights, she depicts a process of continuous evolution. By combining careful analysis of the law with examples of women challenging the status quo, Kerber offers a unique and powerful history of the continuing struggle for equality.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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jury service statute, unconstitutional proxy, combat exemption, women jurors, veteran legislation, birthright citizenship, drafting women, women defendants, petit treason, difference dilemma, absolute preference, jury commissioners, jury lists, peremptory challenges, female citizenship, male jurors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Supreme Court, Gwendolyn Hoyt, United States, New York, Helen Feeney, Selective Service, World War, Fourteenth Amendment, Attorney General, Freedmen's Bureau, Pauli Murray, Dorothy Kenyon, Justice Department, Social Security, Anna Martin, Donald Weinberg, Harriet Anthony, James Martin, William Martin, Abby Smith, Air Force, All-Volunteer Force, Clarence Hoyt, Julia Smith, District Court New!
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- Commentaries on the Constitution by Joseph Story on 4 pages
- Strangers to the Constitution by Gerald L. Neuman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: Volume 7 by Professor Maeva Marcus in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789-1800: Volume 1 Pt. 2 (Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800) (v. 1, Pt. 2) by Professor Maeva Marcus in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America (Studies in Legal History) by Michael Grossberg in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Gender, Colonialism and Education: An International Perspective (Woburn Education Series) by Joyce Goodman on page 167, and Back Matter
- The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America by Sarah Barringer Gordon in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) by Carol Lynn McKibben on page 75, and Back Matter
- American Women and Flight since 1940 by Deborah G. Douglas in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction (Studies in Gender and History) by Magda Fahrni in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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