Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic

The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson.



Women built on precedents established during the Revolution and gained an informal foothold in party politics and male e...