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Title: No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship by Linda K. Kerber ISBN: 0-8090-7384-6 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I had trouble putting it down.
Comment: This is an absolutely fascinating book. The material in it is interesting, detailed and very well written. She uses legal cases as a starting point to discuss women's civic obligations. It becomes very clear that people's obligations have an enormous effect on their rights and the roles they are expected to play in society. The individual cases help keep things grounded in people's lives and not just legal theories. There is an amazing amount of information that I never knew which really helped me understand how things were and how they changed.
One case study was two women who felt that they were being charged more in property taxes that the other land owners in the area. They decided to stop paying property taxes using the slogan "no taxation without representation". These two women had received training in political activism with the abolition and temperence movements which was common among the people who worked for women's sufferage. The "no taxation without representation" was one of the first legal arguments used to try and obtain voting rights for women and initially it was a strong one. It had certainly worked to increase the various classes of men that were allowed to vote. With women, unfortunately, the courts chipped away at the legel precident rather than following it. This one case allowed Ms. Kerber to talk about how women were hurt by being kept out of the political system, the women's sufferage movement, and the response of the courts and politicians.
This book gave me an immense amount of food for thought. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great book from Kerber -
Comment: I have read a lot of women's and Constitutional history, and still my jaw literally dropped open several times while reading this book. Her use of real scenarios made the book readable and enjoyable. People have said lately that we are focused too much on our rights and not our responsibilities; it's scary to see that whether women must bear the responsibilities of citizenship is still in many ways an open question.
Rating: 5
Summary: Readable, well documented and informative
Comment: I'm definately interested in reading and understanding more about the situation women face today. This book was an incredibly informative education on the evolution of debate about what exactly is a woman's place in society. It helped clarify vague confusion I've felt about things being not yet fully equal, but not having the background or vocabulary to explain why.
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Title: Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation by Nancy F. Cott ISBN: 0674008758 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: BORN FOR LIBERTY by Sara M. Evans ISBN: 0684834987 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 22 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition by Estelle B. Freedman ISBN: 0226261506 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Grounding of Modern Feminism by Nancy F. Cott ISBN: 0300042280 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta ISBN: 0679722122 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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