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Article: Gustafson, Melanie Susan: Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2002
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Gustafson, Melanie Susan Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924 Urbana: University of Illinois Press 195 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02688-8 Publication Date: November 2001
Melanie Susan Gustafson, an associate professor of history at the University of Vermont, challenges the perception that women only became active in political parties after gaining the vote in 1920. Her meticulously researched book traces the political participation of women in the Republican Party from its inception in 1854 through the first elections after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.
In the early years of the Republican Party women participated in campaign rituals, ...