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Dissertation Information for Stacey Michele Horstmann

NAME:
- Stacey Michele Horstmann

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2000)

ADVISORS:
- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Mary E. Odem
- Dan T. Carter

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Political apprenticeship of southern women: The political history of white women\'s organizations in Georgia, 1880--1920

Abstract: From the 1890s through the first two decades of the twentieth century, suffragists throughout the United States argued that women\'s votes would introduce a new female presence into politics. Yet even their best efforts did not introduce a \"gender gap\" into electoral politics, and the fifty years following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment revealed no distinct women\'s political perspective. The seeds of a female political identity were sewn during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but their full development has proved a lengthy process that continues today.

This dissertation explores the early phases of this unfolding story through an examination of the ways in which the political behavior of white women reformers and club members in Georgia did--and did not--lead to the development of a distinct female political identity during the decades before women\'s enfranchisement. The political and organizational history of the Georgia Woman\'s Christian Temperance Union, the Georgia Methodist Women\'s Missionary Societies, the Georgia Federation of Women\'s Clubs, and the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy reveals that women\'s participation in these organizations afforded them valuable political training, but that commitment to reform did not reliably predict women\'s general political views. Rather, the early political experiences of these organized women led them to develop a variety of different and sometimes competing political opinions.

During the decades that preceded women\'s enfranchisement, Georgia women, like other southern women, engaged in organizational, legislative, and electoral politics and maintained close contact with northern women and southern men, from whom they learned. Ultimately, however, southern women developed their own political views. When Georgia women became voters, they had already served a term of political apprenticeship that had well prepared them for full political participation. In the end, Georgia women would not radically change the political climate, because despite their common class, race, regional, and gender identities, their prior experience had given them the strength and knowledge to speak with not one, but many, political voices.

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