On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage

On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage
ISBN-10
0299140040
ISBN-13
9780299140045
Category
Political Science
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
Univ of Wisconsin Press
Authors
Genevieve G. McBride, Genevieve C. McBride

Description

On Wisconsin Women traces the role women played in reform movements, both in Wisconsin state politics and in its press. Women's news and opinions often appeared anonymously in abolitionist journals and other reform newspapers even before Wisconsin became a state in 1848. The first state newspaper published under a woman's name was boycotted and failed in 1853. But from the passage of the 14th amendment in 1866 to Wisconsin's ratification of the 19th amendment in 1919, women were never at a loss for words or a newspaper to print them. Women's news won a new respectability under feminine bylines and led to the historic victory for women's suffrage. McBride undertakes the task of considering feminist reform as a conceptual whole.

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