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Top Ten Books on the History of Women's Citizenship

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Emily Prifogle at Legal History Blog has a posted an outstanding booklist on the History of Women's Citizenship[[File:Right_to_Vote.  A number of these books (especially the books written by Barbara Young Welke, Lizabeth Cohen, and Margot Canaday) are also favorites of DailyHistoryjpg|thumbnail|left|250px| [https://www.org and will undoubtably appear on some of our own future Top Ten Booklistsamazon.  Check this out as well as other posts by Prifogle at Legal com/gp/product/0465005020/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465005020&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2717fb04033627095a8ca5435413297e The Right to Vote: The Contested History Blog.of Democracy in the United States]]]
As per usual, if you disagree with any selection Emily Prifogle at [http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/ Legal History Blog] posted an outstanding booklist on this listthe History of Women's Citizenship. A number of these books (especially the books written by Barbara Young Welke, please leave a comment explaining why we (or in this caseLizabeth Cohen, Emily Prifogleand Margot Canaday) are wrongalso favorites of DailyHistory.  Suggest a new book and tell us which book should be removed from the listorg.  Check out [http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.  If you make a strong case and convince us, we will happily revise itcom/ Legal History Blog].
Alexander Keyssar, [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005020/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0465005020&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=2717fb04033627095a8ca5435413297e The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States] (Basic, 2000)
1.  Alexander KeyssarAlice Kessler-Harris, The Right to Vote In Pursuit of Equality: The Contested History of Democracy Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in the United States Twentieth-Century America (BasicUniversity of Oxford Press, 20002001)
Amy Dru Stanley, From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2.  Alice Kessler-HarrisLinda Gordon, In Pursuit of Equality Pitied but Not Entitled: Women, Men, A Single Mothers and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America History of Welfare (University of Oxford The Free Press, 20011994)
Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang, 1999)
Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003)
3.  Amy Dru StanleyMargot Canaday, From Bondage to Contract The Straight State: Wage Labor, Marriage, Sexuality and the Market Citizenship in the Age of Slave Emancipation Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge Princeton University Press, 19982009)
Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2004)
4.  Barbara Young WelkeNancy Cott, Recasting American Liberty Public Vows: Gender, Race, Law, A History of Marriage and the Railroad RevolutionNation  (Harvard University Press, 1865-1920 2000) and The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Cambridge Yale University Press, 20011989)
  5.  Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: A Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (The Free Press, 1994)  6.  Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill & Wang, 1999)     7.  Lizabeth Cohen, A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003)  8.  Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America  (Princeton University Press, 2009)   9.  Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2004)   10.  Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation  (Harvard University Press, 2000)   11.  Nancy Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale University Press, 1989)   12.  Sharon Sharon E. Wood, The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City (University of North Carolina Press, 2005)

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