This is the second of two issues by Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution enfranchising American women, with the theme “Women and Gender in Pennsylvania.” As in the first issue, Linda Ries, the PH editor, and I were intent on providing work on women and gender in Pennsylvania not limited solely to the suffrage era. We have combined traditional academic articles with short vignettes to showcase the range of historical experience among Pennsylvania women, both past and present. This second series addresses some of the same issues covered in the first one, for example, suffrage and mid-nineteenth-century activism, but it also surveys the innovative approaches white women used to raise awareness about enfranchisement in Pennsylvania. It includes an article on the professional work of a female architect and an interview with a lesbian activist in Lancaster...
Women, Gender, and Rights: Past and Present, Part 2
janet moore lindman is professor and chair of the Department of History at Rowan University. She is the author of Bodies of Belief: Baptist Community in Early America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) and co-editor, along with Michele Lise Tarter, of the anthology A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America (Cornell University Press, 2001). She has authored articles on women’s and gender history that have appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly, the Journal of Social History, History Compass, and Quaker History. Her current book project is on American Quakerism in the antebellum era.
Janet Moore Lindman; Women, Gender, and Rights: Past and Present, Part 2. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 1 October 2020; 87 (4): 587–590. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.87.4.0587
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