Women and the U.S. Constitution: 1776-1920 - Paperback

by Jean H. Baker (Author)

In the drafting of the U.S. Constitution, gender was a non-issue. Women played no role in the authorship of either the original 1787 document or the Bill of Rights, and were largely excluded from the Constitution's application.

Author Biography

Jean H. Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College. She is the author of several books, including Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists; Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography; and Affairs of Party: The Political Culture of Northern Democrats in Mid-Nineteenth Century America, and editor of Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited.