{"product_id":"practicing-citizenship-kristy-maddux-9780271083506","title":"Practicing Citizenship: Women's Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1893, the Supreme Court had officially declared women to be citizens, but most did not have the legal right to vote. In \u003ci\u003ePracticing Citizenship\u003c\/i\u003e, Kristy Maddux provides a glimpse at an unprecedented alternative act of citizenship by women of the time: their deliberative participation in the Chicago World's Fair of 1893.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailing from the United States and abroad, the more than eight hundred women speakers at the World's Fair included professionals, philanthropists, socialites, and reformers addressing issues such as suffrage, abolition, temperance, prison reform, and education. Maddux examines the planning of the event, the full program of women speakers, and dozens of speeches given in the fair's daily congresses. In particular, she analyzes the ways in which these women shaped the discourse at the fair and modeled to the world practices of democratic citizenship, including deliberative democracy, racial uplift, organizing, and economic participation. In doing so, Maddux shows how these pioneering women claimed sociopolitical ground despite remaining disenfranchised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis carefully researched study makes significant contributions to the studies of rhetoric, American women's history, political history, and the history of the World's Fair itself. Most importantly, it sheds new light on women's activism in the late nineteenth century; even amidst the suffrage movement, women innovated practices of citizenship beyond the ballot box.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kristy Maddux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271083506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271083506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Kristy Maddux","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096668283135,"sku":"9780271083506","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/practicing-citizenship-kristy-maddux-9780271083506","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}