| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

Women and the Unstable State in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. by Alison M. Parker and Stephanie Cole. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000. xii, 164 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-89096-930-2.)

The introduction and the six essays that compose this volume offer fresh insights into American women's political roles in the century before their formal enfranchisement. Together, they clarify the inadequacy of familiar gender paradigms—of public and private, of separate spheres—and highlight the necessity of revising historical assumptions about nineteenth-century politics. . . .

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