Review: Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963, by Rebecca DeWolf

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Book Review| November 01 2022 Review: Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963, by Rebecca DeWolf Rebecca DeWolf. Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. 350 pp. Paperback $30.00. Glenna Matthews Glenna Matthews GLENNA MATTHEWS, an independent scholar in Laguna Beach, has a PhD in American history from Stanford University. She has published six books (one coauthored) and twenty articles, dealing with both California history and women’s history. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (4): 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.115 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Glenna Matthews; Review: Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963, by Rebecca DeWolf. California History 1 November 2022; 99 (4): 115–117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.115 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search We already have a number of excellent works on the so-far-unsuccessful fight to secure ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Some books focus on the spark plug of the movement, National Woman’s Party founder Alice Paul, some on the events leading up to the creation of the pathbreaking Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in 1961, and some on the failure to ratify the ERA in the late twentieth century. The great contribution made by Rebecca DeWolf in Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1963 lies in the granular detail she provides about the way the amendment evolved in the early 1920s and why it took the shape it did. With an impressive array of sources, she teases out the constitutional and real-world implications of the earlier Nineteenth Amendment and delineates how the dawning realization that it was only part of the solution to women’s... You do not currently have access to this content.