Our Duty, Our Rights, Our America: Women in American Nativism 1830 - 1930

<p>This paper assesses the role women played in organizing and maintaining anti-Catholic nativist movements between 1830–1930. It analyzes women's motivations for joining nativist sororities and describes the activities they participated in. It pays special attention to women involved in antebellum nativist sororities, late nineteenth century nativist sororities, and the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. It looks at how nativist women used the concepts of Republican Motherhood, woman's moral superiority, and woman's innate patriotism to justify their activities and campaign for woman suffrage.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Arts (DA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year

2001

Author dc:creator

• Lovercheck-Saunders, Tanis

• Psychology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.und.edu/theses/915

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.und.edu:theses-1917