Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776-1920

by Jean H. Baker

Overview

In the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, gender was a non-issue. Women played no role in the authorship of either the original 1787 document or the Bill of Rights, and were largely excluded from the Constitution's application.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872291638
Publisher:	American Historical Association
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Series:	New Essays on American Constitutional History
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	8.54(w) x 5.58(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Jean H. Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College. She is the author of several books, including Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists; Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography; and Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, and editor of Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Common Law of Domestic Relations

Chapter 2: The Declaration of Independence

Chapter 3: The United States Constitution

Chapter 4: Constitutional Invisibility, 1791-1870

Chapter 5: Constitutional Possibilities: Efforts to Nationalize Women's Rights, 1866-1900

Chapter 6: Claiming Rights through the Nineteenth Amendment, 1900-20

Epilogue

Suggested Readings

Notes