TY  - BOOK
AU  - Carolyn Summers Vacca
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - A Reform Against Nature
T2  - Woman Suffrage and the Rethinking of American Citizenship, 1840-1920
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098464
N2  - Debates over women’s suffrage filled the pages of nineteenth-century articles, speeches, and books. Early natural rights justifications gave way to those based on women’s special characteristics – characteristics used by vehement anti-suffragists to justify women’s exclusion from the polity. These questions over natural rights reappeared in immigration and naturalization debates, which also attracted the print media’s attention. This shift in the rationale for inclusion in the suffrage debates paved the way for a reorientation of American views – from citizenship as a right, to citizenship as a privilege – a view that informed America’s response to questions of immigration and naturalization in the early twentieth century.
KW  - Exclusion, Polity, Naturalization, Anti suffragists, Immigration
LA  - English
ER  -