The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s / / Liette Gidlow.

• Superior document: Reconfiguring American political history
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Gidlow, Liette Patricia.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Reconfiguring American political history.
• Physical Description: xi, 260 p., [8] p. of plates.

Table of Contents

Introduction : making dominance -- "Civic slackers" and "poll dodgers" : nonvoting and the construction of discursive dominance -- "A whole fleet of campaigns" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns in overview -- "Vote as you please, but vote!" : the leadership of the get-out-the-vote campaigns -- "Good for at least 100 votes" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns at the local level -- The expert citizen : civic education and the remaking of civic hierarchies -- The methods of Wrigley and Barnum : the get-out-the-vote campaigns and the commodification of political culture -- Conclusion : the new regime.