Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880

By Mary P. Ryan and Professor Mary P. Ryan

Book Overview

"Ryan's elegant essays sketch a chronology of changing gender symbology and contribute to our understanding of the cultural construction of boundaries between public and private. Historians and feminists will pursue for some time her questions about the process and consequences of excluding women from the public arena and their striving for participation in it."--Lee Chambers-Schiller, American Historical Review. "An extremely important contribution to women's history. It reminds us... that women's emergence in public life during the twentieth century continues to open up new political possibilities."--Ruth Rosen, Women's Review of Books. The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801839084
• ISBN13: 9780801839085
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Incredibly well-written and insightful

Mary Ryan of Johns Hopkins is one of the foremost feminist scholars in the US and this is a wonderful example of her work. Ryan traces the role of women in the urban context of what Habermas termed 'the public sphere' from 1825-1880 and comes to some very surprising and insightful conclusions about the role of women. Highly recommend.