'In this heroically researched and fascinating study of gender ideology, law, and governance in the outlier territory of Washington, Sandra F. VanBurkleo underscores the contrast and interplay between natural law with its universalist assumptions and culturalist defenses for women's suffrage. By focusing on the local arena, she ties opposition to prohibition and temperance to big questions of state building and citizenship under an expanding capitalist economy to produce the most convincing portrait yet of the legal struggle for suffrage. Just as one of her fascinating protagonists, Justice Greene, argued for undivided rights, so VanBurkleo links realms too often studied apart. She shows the interconnection between gender systems and political questions (suffrage, protective labor legislation, married women's property rights and domestic relations law, and constitution making.) Gender Remade is a most important work.' Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
1. 'We are kings and queens': introduction; 2. 'She does not go into utter slavery': toward equality and co-sovereignty; 3. 'Equal rights with man in every respect': practicing mixed-sex democracy; 4. 'A compound creature of the statute': jury duty and social disintegration; 5. 'A double head in nature ... is a monstrosity': internecine warfare; 6. 'Fraternalism permeates the atmosphere': remaking gender and public power; 7. 'We contemplate no sweeping reform': constitutionalizing the home vote; 8. 'Every woman is a law unto herself': rights, obligations, and legitimacy; Afterword: a bibliographic commentary.
