Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 by Mary P. Ryan

Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880

Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History

Mary P. Ryan

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On May 15, 1862, U.S. General Benjamin Butler, commander of occupied New Orleans, ordered that any woman who publicly insulted Union soldiers be subject to prosecution as a prostitute. Not all nineteenth-century women, Butler learned, felt their p...

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