No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship

Author: Linda K Kerber (University of Iowa) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This pioneering study redefines women's history in the United States by focusing on civic obligations rather than rights. Looking closely at thirty telling cases from the pages of American legal history, Kerber's analysis reaches from the Revolution, when married women did not have the same obligation as their husbands to be "patriots," up to the present, when men and women, regardless of their marital status, still have...Read more