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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814019503321

Autore

Gidlow Liette Patricia

Titolo

The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s / / Liette Gidlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, c2004

ISBN

0-8018-9901-X

Edizione

[Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Reconfiguring American political history

Disciplina

324.973/0915

Soggetti

Political participation - United States

Voting - United States

Women - Political activity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : making dominance -- "Civic slackers" and "poll dodgers" : nonvoting and the construction of discursive dominance -- "A whole fleet of campaigns" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns in overview -- "Vote as you please, but vote!" : the leadership of the get-out-the-vote campaigns -- "Good for at least 100 votes" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns at the local level -- The expert citizen : civic education and the remaking of civic hierarchies -- The methods of Wrigley and Barnum : the get-out-the-vote campaigns and the commodification of political culture -- Conclusion : the new regime.

Sommario/riassunto

In the end, the Get-Out-the Vote campaigns shed light not only on the problem of voter turnout in the 1920s, but on some of the problems that hamper the practice of full democracy even today.