| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.2

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Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America

By Francesca Morgan

(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. xiii, 297. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Paperbound, $21.95.)

Francesca Morgan's Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America explores women-centered nationalism among the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Woman's Relief Corp (WRC), and the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) from Reconstruction to the 1930s. The gendered conceptions of nationalism that characterized such groups' missions grew from beliefs that women were morally superior, that their political activism was "essential to nation-building," and that they were "creators of culture, in the sense of everyday life and attitudes" (p. 3). These values led women nationalists to challenge some sexual hierarchies, but not to confront women's exclusion from direct participation in the political process. By glorifying "men's sacrifices on battlefields as the highest form of patriotism," Morgan asserts, gendered nationalism "reinforced women's official exclusion from military service and therefore from first-class citizenship" (p. 4).

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