"Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Introduction.
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 ...
prominent activist Rose Mathews. There was a close relationship between women's activism within the nascent union and growing suffrage activism, further fuelled by the Association's narrow vote, on its founding in 1907, to exclude women ...
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This volume is essential reading for those interested in American politics and women's formal participation in it.
This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as; * Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing * Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of ...
This volume is essential reading for those interested in American politics and women's formal participation in it.
Of all the reforms that came out of the progressive era, women's suffrage has the longest history. This forty-eight-page album recovers some of the lost chapters of that history and...
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.
"One hundred years ago, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It officially established that the right of citizens to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
From the movement's antecedents in the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, to civil disobedience during World War I, the essential elements of this tumultuous story emerge in these finely-tuned essays.
History of the women's suffrage movement in Nebraska from 1855 to 1920.
121–150; Christine Bolt, The women's movements in the United States and Britain from the 1790s to the 1920s (Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993); June Purvis, A lost dimension? The political education of women in the ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Traces the history of the American woman's suffrage movement. The antisuffrage and English movements are also covered in detail.
These women were clever and determined, knew the power of humour and surprise and exhibited 'unladylike' passion and bravery. Joyce Marlow's anthology is lively, comprehensive, surprising and triumphant.
Here is the story of women's suffrage in New Zealand - the right to vote and what women did to gain it.