LEADER 05429nam 22007215 450 001 9910457477503321 005 20210107181807.0 010 $a1-283-21149-1 010 $a9786613211491 010 $a0-8122-0141-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201413 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050863 035 $a(OCoLC)759158181 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491903 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000545131 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386021 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000545131 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10553921 035 $a(PQKB)10844011 035 $a(DE-B1597)448994 035 $a(OCoLC)979577566 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441446 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050863 100 $a20190708d2010 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThese Fiery Frenchified Dames $eWomen and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia /$fSusan Branson 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2010] 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 0 $aEarly American Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1777-2 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. Women and the Development of American Print Culture -- $tChapter Two. American Women and the French Revolution -- $tChapter Three. Women as Authors, Audiences, and Subjects in the American Theater -- $tChapter Four. The Creation of the American Political Salon -- $tConclusion -- $tNote -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aOn July 4, 1796, a group of women gathered in York, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of American independence. They drank tea and toasted the Revolution, the Constitution, and, finally, the rights of women. This event would have been unheard of thirty years before, but a popular political culture developed after the war in which women were actively involved, despite the fact that they could not vote or hold political office. This newfound atmosphere not only provided women with opportunities to celebrate national occasions outside the home but also enabled them to conceive of possessing specific rights in the young republic and to demand those rights in very public ways.Susan Branson examines the avenues through which women's presence became central to the competition for control of the nation's political life and, despite attempts to quell the emerging power of women-typified by William Cobbett's derogatory label of politically active women as "these fiery Frenchified dames"-demonstrates that the social, political, and intellectual ideas regarding women in the post-Revolutionary era contributed to a more significant change in women's public lives than most historians have recognized.As an early capital of the United States, the leading publishing center, and the largest and most cosmopolitan city in America during the eighteenth century, Philadelphia exerted a considerable influence on national politics, society, and culture. It was in Philadelphia that the Federalists and Democratic Republicans first struggled for America's political future, with women's involvement critical to the outcome of their heated partisan debates. Middle and upper-class women of Philadelphia were able to achieve a greater share in the culture and politics of the new nation through several key developments, including theaters and salons that were revitalized following the war, allowing women to intermingle and participate in political discussions, and the wider availability of national and international writings, particularly those that described women's involvement in the French Revolution-perhaps the most important and controversial historical event in the early development of American women's political consciousness.Given these circumstances, Branson argues, American women were able to create new more active social and political roles for themselves that brought them out of the home and into the public sphere. Although excluded from the formal political arenas of voting and lawmaking, American women in the Age of Revolution nevertheless thought and acted politically and were able to make their presence and opinions known to the benefit of a young nation. 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aCivil Rights$2bisac 606 $aWomen$xHistory$xPolitical activity$y18th century$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia 606 $aWomen in public life$xHistory$y18th century$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia 606 $aWomen$xSocial conditions$zPhiladelphia$zPennsylvania 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aGender Studies & Sexuality$2HILCC 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE 615 7$aCivil Rights 615 0$aWomen$xHistory$xPolitical activity 615 0$aWomen in public life$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aGender Studies & Sexuality 676 $a305.42/09748/11 700 $aBranson$b Susan, $01034280 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457477503321 996 $aThese Fiery Frenchified Dames$92473021 997 $aUNINA