Marriage and Women's Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934

Cott, Nancy F.

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“…53 Nancy Cott's notion of women's citizenship in the United States not as "a definitive either/or proposal -you are or you are not -but a compromisable one" seems consistent with the kind of spectrum Lister is proposing. 54 Recent interventions by sociologists Pnina Werbner and Nira Yuval-Davis define citizenship as a relationship "inflected by identity, social positioning, cultural assumptions, institutional practices, and a sense of belonging," casting it as a multidimensional discursive framework encompassing the languages, rhetorics, and the formal categories for claims-making, including those raised by those formally excluded from citizenship. My emphasis here on citizenship as a basis for claims-making intends to link the experiential and discursive dimensions of citizenship.…”

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Class vs. Citizenship: Keywords in German Gender History

Canning

2004

Cent Eur Hist

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Thereis perhaps no more fitting way to honor Vernon Lidtke than to demonstrate, in the form of this essay, that the questions he posed to his students years ago continue to provide a grid for contemplating and analyzing historical subjects, both familiar and new. One such question involved the impact of one concept's transformation upon another: would class persist as a crucial historical category once it had confronted the differences of gender? This question preoccupied me in previous work and I return to it here, taking stock of that which has changed since I first contemplated this question, in the fields of both German and European gender history. Another question that remains an object of debate is the longer-term trajectory of the history of women and gender: how might we define the point at which its work of subversion or revision is complete? What directions might this field take once “mainstream” histories have successfully incorporated its findings? This essay aims to compare the ways in which the keywords class, citizenship, and welfare state have been redefined, expanded, or circumscribed through the turn to culture, language, and gender. This comparative exercise allows me to expand Vernon's original questions to include citizenship, the critical concept in my more recent scholarship, and to review the potentials and promises of main-streaming across the so-called Atlantic divide.

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Class vs. Citizenship: Keywords in German Gender History

Canning

2004

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“…American historian Nancy Cott suggests that citizenship confers 'an identity that may have deep personal and psychological dimensions at the same time that it expresses belonging'. 20 Furthermore, a subject can also be understood, as Gagnier points out, 'as a body that is separate (except in the case of pregnant women) from other human bodies', even if it is, like other bodies, closely dependent on its physical environment. Gagnier's location of the subject in the body also prompts reflections on the ways in which discourses about citizenship have collectively embodied citizens by race, gender, and age.…”

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Gender, Citizenship and Subjectivity: Some Historical and Theoretical Considerations

Canning

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2001

Gender & History

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Because the French Revolution failed to produce a widely acceptable definition of citizenship, the limits of manhood suffrage in the early nineteenth century were uncertain. Social practices, in particular scientific activity, served as claims to the status of citizen. By engaging in scientific pastimes, bourgeois Frenchmen asserted that they possessed the rationality and autonomy that liberal theorists associated both with manliness and with civic capacity. However, bourgeois science was never a stable signifier of masculinity or of competence. As professional science emerged, the bourgeois amateur increasingly became the feminised object of satire rather than the sober andmeritorious citizen‐scientist.

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“…64 The various agitation trials of the new woman and of the delegatki prove amply that even the new Soviet heroines had to be tamed and controlled by the authorities.…”

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“…If citizenship can be analysed as a spectrum, as Nancy Cott has recently argued, ranging from nominal membership in the polity to full participation, then it may be that a person's or group's degree of citizenship must be measured not only by the laws of a country (which in this case declared women to be the full equals of men), but also by the practices of the day, the ways in which individuals' roles are or were scripted in public discourses. 64 The various agitation trials of the new woman and of the delegatki prove amply that even the new Soviet heroines had to be tamed and controlled by the authorities.…”

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The Trial of the New Woman: Citizens‐in‐Training in the New Soviet Republic

Wood¹

2001

Gender & History

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This essay examines the texts of Soviet plays from the 1920s known as agitation trials that deal with issues of women's emancipation and participation in the public sphere. It argues that, far from showing women to be men's equals (the ostensible purpose of the plays), the trials give a shocking portrayal of their heroines' faults, from passivity and meddling to gossip and lack of discipline. Given these weaknesses, the women delegates are supposed to recognise their need for tutelage from the new authorities. Their citizenship is thus held, at best, on contingent approval from those authorities.

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Marriage and Women's Citizenship in the United States, 1830-1934

Cited by 99 publications

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Class vs. Citizenship: Keywords in German Gender History

Class vs. Citizenship: Keywords in German Gender History

Gender, Citizenship and Subjectivity: Some Historical and Theoretical Considerations

The Trial of the New Woman: Citizens‐in‐Training in the New Soviet Republic

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