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Women in Public
Mary P. Ryan
其他書名
Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880
出版Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
主題History / Military / GeneralHistory / United States / GeneralHistory / WomenSocial Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
ISBN08018390849780801839085
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wXa1AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of occupied New Orleans, ordered that any women who publicly insulted Union soldiers be subject to prosecution as a prostitute. Not all nineteenth-century women, Bulter learned, felt their place was in the home. As his order implies, women were governed by an unwritten code of public conduct, appeared on public streets, spoke out on public issues, and were subjects of public policy. In 'Women in Public' noted historian Mary P. Ryan examines each of these issues as it affected women in New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Contrary to current perceptions, Ryan contents, nineteenth-century women appeared in public in a variety of roles. They took part in civic ceremonies, from Independence Day celebrations to ethnic festivals. Whether they consorted in parks designed for "ladies" or in the increasingly regulated haunts of prostitutes, their place in the everyday life of the streets became more segregated and distinct. Denied access to the voting booth, they practiced "outdoor politics," waving handkerchiefs at rallies--and wielding brickbats in riots. Exploring little-noted aspects of nineteenth-century political discourse, Ryan shows how gender and sexual imagery in public language changed as the century progressed. She analyzes the construction of boundaries between private and public spheres and examines the American political system's failure to accommodate difference within democratic order." -- Back cover.