Chronicles the women's rights movement in the United States, especially the fight for the right to vote, from its origin in the abolition and temperance movements, through the split after the Civil Wa
What united and moved millions of women to seek a right that their society denied them? What were their beliefs about the nature of the home, marriage, sex, politics, religion, immigrants, blacks, lab
Originally published in "Encyclopedia Americana" in 1920, this paperback edition tells the story of the women’s suffrage movement in American, which led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment
Blast back to the past and learn all about the women's suffrage movement.When people think about the women's suffrage movement, things like voting rights and protests may come to mind. But wha
Blast back to the past and learn all about the women's suffrage movement.When people think about the women's suffrage movement, things like voting rights and protests may come to mind. But wha
"Ruthchild argues that the women's movement in Russia, with its insistence on women's citizenship and suffrage, was integral to democratization efforts in Imperial Russia, and especially to the revolu
Women's Suffrage Literature is a new Major Work from Routledge and Edition Synapse. It makes available in facsimile key texts which represent the wealth of creative writing that emerged around the iss
This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British women?s suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928. In this second edition, Smith
Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's mov
Under what conditions are political elites responsive to social movements, and when do social movements gain access to political elites? This book explores this question with regard to the women's mov
This book tells the story of the women's suffrage movement in Britain beginning with John Stuart Mill's proposal of a women's suffrage amendment to a reform bill.
Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers extended a long list of political rights and obligations to both men and women, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office. As the territory moved toward statehood, however, jury duty and constitutional co-sovereignty proved to be particularly controversial; in the end, 'modernization' and national integration brought disastrous losses for women until 1910, when political rights were partially restored. Losses to women's sovereignty were profound and enduring - a finding that points, not to rights and powers, but to constitutionalism and the power of social practice as Americans struggled to establish gender equality. Gender Remade is a significant contribution to the understudied legal history of the American West, especially the role that legal culture played in transitioni
The epic history of African American women's pursuit of political power -- and how it transformed America.In the standard story, the suffrage crusade began in Seneca Falls in 1848 and ended with the r
In 1920 the 19th Amendment was ratified and American women at last won the right to vote. Thirty illustrations to color offer a pictorial history of the women's suffrage movement, including images
Utah offers a paradox in women’s history—a state founded by polygamists who offered women early suffrage and encouraged career education in the nineteenth century. More than Petticoats: R
Official Companion to the Library of Congress Exhibition.Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote tells the story of the long campaign for women’s suffrage – considered the largest re
In 1913, while the women’s suffrage movement gains momentum in the nation’s capital, the thought of a woman joining the New York City police force is downright radical, even if recent tran
The women’s suffrage movement is in full swing in 1912 Portland, Oregon—the last holdout state on the West Coast. Miriam desperately wants to work at her father’s print
