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Dissertation Information for Allison Lee Sneider

NAME:
- Allison Lee Sneider

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Ellen Carol DuBois

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Michael Salman
- Karen Brodkin

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.

The late-nineteenth century has long been considered the hey-day of state and local partisan political activity in the United States, yet many suffragists attempted to by pass state governments in their quest for the ballot. Focusing their energies on national campaigns, federal legislation and the creation of new international organizations, Gilded Age suffragists' political activity remains an unexamined bridge between the localism and regionalism of nineteenth century political practice, and the national and international character of twentieth century reform.

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