| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Susan Branson. These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia. (Early American Studies.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2001. Pp. 218, Cloth $47.50, paper $17.50.

This book reflects the new historiographical interest in the political activities of American women before they got the vote. Even though the republic, in theory, excluded women from political life far more strictly than monarchical regimes, we now know that women did not have to wait for the Nineteenth Amendment to take a role in politics. Historians have been carving out an earlier political role for women, partly through redefining politics and partly by ferreting out the part played by women in quite traditional forms of politics outside of voting. Susan Branson's book is an interesting addition to our understanding both of the early republic and of the connection between women and politics. It should be read in conjunction with the richer Parlor Politics by Catherine Allgor (2000), which begins where Branson leaves off, with the move of the capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. . . .

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