ISBN:
9780252051784
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420973
Keywords:
Women Political activity
;
History
;
Women Suffrage
;
History
;
Feminism History
;
Women's rights History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I The Cultural and Political Struggles for Enfranchisement -- 1 "The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement: Notes toward the Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Feminism" -- 2 "Mormon Women, Suffrage, and Citizenship at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair" -- 3 "Suffrage and Spectacle" -- 4 "From Prisons and Prisoners" -- 5 "'Whether We Vote or Not-We are Going to Shoot': Women and Armed Defense on the Home Front" -- 6 "Unsightly Evidence: 'Female Inversion' and the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement" -- Part II Winning and Wielding the Ballot -- 7 "Fighting for Rights in the 1910s and 1920s" (Excerpt) -- 8 "New Women" -- 9 "We Just Kept Going" -- 10 "Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects of an All-Inclusive Sisterhood" -- 11 "Sources of Political Unity and Disunity among Women: Placing the Gender Gap in Perspective" -- 12 "The Gender Gap: A Comparison across Racial and Ethnic Groups" -- List of Original Publications -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
"Over the last several decades, many University of Illinois Press publications have illuminated the key figures and diverse types of work across gender, race, and class that contributed to the suffrage movement and women voting. This anthology contains some of the most influential previously published chapters from UIP monographs and edited volumes on women's suffrage and contemporary voting issues. The year 2020 boasts the 100th anniversary of women's right to vote, and this volume is intended to commemorate the centennial of the nineteenth amendment"--
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