| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. By Susan Branson. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. 218 pp. Cloth, $47.50, ISBN 0-8122-3609-2. Paper, $17.50, ISBN 0-8122-1777-2.)

Susan Branson's These Fiery Frenchified Dames examines the political role of women in Philadelphia during the decades following the American Revolution. For too long, she argues, historians have focused on formal institutions of governance and elite male political actors at the expense of examining the larger public sphere. Conceived more broadly, politics at that time included print culture, popular mobilization, theatrical productions, and private salons. In those arenas, women were eager participants in an informal political realm that was part and parcel of the political culture of the 1780s and 1790s. . . .

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