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Author Branson, Susan, author.

Title These fiery frenchified dames : women and political culture in early national Philadelphia / Susan Branson
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Early American studies
Early American studies.
Contents Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Women and the Development of American Print Culture -- Chapter Two: American Women and the French Revolution -- Chapter Three: Women as Authors, Audiences, and Subjects in the American Theater -- Chapter Four: The Creation of the American Political Salon -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments
Summary On 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 discus
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-208) and index
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Subject Women -- Political activity -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Women in public life -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century
Women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- United States -- Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Social conditions
Women in public life
Women -- Political activity
Women -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100723
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions
France -- History -- 1789-1793. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051314
Subject France
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812201413
0812201418
9780812236095
0812236092
1283211491
9781283211499