Gender Remade Citizenship Suffrage Public Power New Northwest … 9781107098022 LN

Gender RemadeCitizenship, Suffrage, and Public Power in the New Northwest, 18791912\nAuthor(s): Sandra F. VanBurkleo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107098022, 978-1107098022\nSynopsis\nGender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers extended a long list of political rights and obligations to both men and women, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office. As the territory moved toward statehood, however, jury duty and constitutional co-sovereignty proved to be particularly controversial; in the end, 'modernization' and national integration brought disastrous losses for women until 1910, when political rights were partially restored. Losses to women's sovereignty were profound and enduring - a finding that points, not to rights and.