The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s / / Liette Gidlow
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Gidlow Liette Patricia
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| Titolo: |
The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s / / Liette Gidlow
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, c2004 |
| Edizione: | Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 324.973/0915 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political participation - United States |
| Voting - United States | |
| Women - Political activity - United States | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The big vote |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-9901-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814019503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Reconfiguring American political history.