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Book Title
Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-
Publication Date
2007-04-01
Pages
200
ISBN
9780801885525

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801885523
ISBN-13
9780801885525
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57191291

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
200 Pages
Publication Name
Constitutional Context : Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America
Language
English
Subject
Women, United States / 19th Century, Linguistics / Semantics, Civil Rights, Constitutions, American Government / General, Gender & the Law
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Political Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Author
Kathleen S. Sullivan
Series
The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-020808
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"An interesting perspective and one well worth discussing with students. I have found this work to be enormously instructive while teaching." -- Lauren Bowen, Law and Politics Book Review, ""An interesting perspective and one well worth discussing with students. I have found this work to be enormously instructive while teaching."", An interesting perspective and one well worth discussing with students. I have found this work to be enormously instructive while teaching.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
346.7301/34
Table Of Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Context in the Constitutional Order Part I: The Rise of Rights 1. Codification of the Common Law Considered2. Abstracting Rights3. The Married Women's Property Acts: Death Blow to Coverture? Part II: Lingering Status 4. The Married Women's Property Acts: Collaborating for Coverture5. The Domesticity of the Domestic Relations6. Common Law LostConclusionNotesIndex
Synopsis
While the United States was founded on abstract principles of certain "unalienable rights," its legal traditions are based in British common law, a fact long decried by progressive reformers. Common law, the complaint goes, ignores abstract rights principles in favor of tradition, effectively denying equality to large segments of the ......, While the United States was founded on abstract principles of certain "unalienable rights," its legal traditions are based in British common law, a fact long decried by progressive reformers. Common law, the complaint goes, ignores abstract rights principles in favor of tradition, effectively denying equality to large segments of the population. The nineteenth-century women's rights movement embraced this argument, claiming that common law rules of property and married women's status were at odds with the nation's commitment to equality. Conventional wisdom suggests that this tactic helped pave the way for voting rights and better jobs. In Constitutional Context, Kathleen S. Sullivan presents a fresh perspective.In revisiting the era's congressional debates, state legislation, judicial opinions, news accounts, and work of political activists, Sullivan finds that the argument for universal, abstract rights was not the only, or best, path available for social change. Rather than erecting a new paradigm of absolute rights, she argues, women's rights activists unwittingly undermined common law's ability to redress grievances, contributing heavily to the social, cultural, and political stagnation that characterizes the place of women and the movement today.A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law., While the United States was founded on abstract principles of certain "unalienable rights," its legal traditions are based in British common law, a fact long decried by progressive reformers. Common law, the complaint goes, ignores abstract rights principles in favor of tradition, effectively denying equality to large segments of the population. The nineteenth-century women's rights movement embraced this argument, claiming that common law rules of property and married women's status were at odds with the nation's commitment to equality. Conventional wisdom suggests that this tactic helped pave the way for voting rights and better jobs. In Constitutional Context, Kathleen S. Sullivan presents a fresh perspective. In revisiting the era's congressional debates, state legislation, judicial opinions, news accounts, and work of political activists, Sullivan finds that the argument for universal, abstract rights was not the only, or best, path available for social change. Rather than erecting a new paradigm of absolute rights, she argues, women's rights activists unwittingly undermined common law's ability to redress grievances, contributing heavily to the social, cultural, and political stagnation that characterizes the place of women and the movement today. A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law., A challenging and thoughtful study of what is commonly thought of as an era of progress, Constitutional Context provides the groundwork for a more comprehensive understanding and interpretation of constitutional law.
LC Classification Number
KF478.S85 2007

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