Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited

Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited
ISBN-10
0195130162
ISBN-13
9780195130164
Series
Votes for Women
Category
History
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Jean H. Baker

Description

This collection of new scholarship on the struggle of American women for the suffrage contains eleven essays, each of which illuminates some aspect of the long battle that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage amendment in 1920. From the movement's antecedents in the minds of women like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the historic gathering at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience during World War I orchestrated by the National Woman's Party. Contributors focus on how the suffrage battle was interwoven with constitutional issues at the federal and state level and how the suffrage struggle played out in different regions, especially the West and the South, as well as the activities of opponents to women's voting. Baker's introductory essay sets the stage for revisiting suffrage by making explicit the similarities and differences in interpretations of suffrage and shows how the movement intersected with other events in American history and cannot be studied in isolation from them.

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