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Practicing Citizenship: Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (2019)

Practicing Citizenship: Women’s Rhetoric at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (2019)

By 1893, the Supreme Court had officially declared women to be citizens, but most did not have the legal right to vote. In Practicing Citizenship, Kristy Maddux provides a glimpse at an unprecedented alternative act of citizenship by women of the time: their deliberative participation in the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893.