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March, 2008
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Republican Women
Feminism and Conservatism From Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right

By Catherine E. Rymph
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. xi, 339. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95.)

Catherine Rymph has produced a tightly focused monograph on the role of Republican women in shaping the political culture of the party over the course of the twentieth century. Rymph is concerned with describing the moral crusades of GOP clubwomen—women who operated outside the party structure and who concerned themselves with advancing an agenda of female consciousness. She also suitably describes the activism of party women who operated within the party structure and sought to shape its internal policies and platforms. 1
      The book is focused mostly on the tensions between clubwomen and party women in constructing policies, both within and outside the party, that might maximize benefits for women. Rymph has done a solid job contextualizing the disputes between women's factions and documenting how these disputes, typically over issues of full integration within the wider party, or issues of morality and "women's concerns," fit within the wider GOP landscape. . . .
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