Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
From Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who founded the suffrage movement at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, to Sojourner Truth and her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech, to Alice Paul, arrested and force-fed in prison, ...
ELIzABETH AND ANNE MILLER: A MoTHER-DAuGHTER SuFFRAGE TEAM Elizabeth Smith Miller (1822–1911) and Anne fitzhugh Miller (1856–1912) were a mother-daughter team with reform in their blood. Elizabeth Smith Miller was the daughter of Gerrit ...
Cott, Grounding of Modern Feminism, 247–63; Kirsten Marie Delegard, Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). 12. 2.
No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Elizabeth Robins’ Votes for Women! is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
Cleverly framed as a boxing match, this book provides a fascinating and compelling look at an important moment in American history.
Votes for Women examines the importance of the suffrage movement to women's general emancipation in the twentieth century, and discusses its role as catalyst to women's social and political equality.
In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights.
that assumption, Rice and Willey conclude that female turnout in 21 Northern states where women did not have the ballot before 1920 averaged 34.7 percent. They acknowledge that the figure constitutes a lower bound, because (as others ...
Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites, these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era.