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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Reconstruction, expansion, and empire: The United States woman suffrage movement and the re-making of national political community, 1870--1900 Abstract: My dissertation examines American women's contributions to the meaning of citizenship during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and explores the relationship between feminism, state-building, and nationalism. This project foregrounds the evolving link between racial arguments for women's ballots and the politics of building the nation-state. Seizing on the definition of national citizenship provided by the Fourteenth amendment, post-bellum suffragists attempted to link women's ballots to national sovereignty. When legislators and jurists remanded the question of women's voting rights back to the states, suffragists argued that national political leaders undermined the very idea of the nation. Arguing this position in the courts, the press, and before Congress, suffragists hoped to make women's ballots a symbol of post-bellum federal authority over the states, and women voters equal members of a political community that was defined in explicitly national terms. |
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