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The weight of their votes : southern women and political leverage in the 1920s /
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In 'The Weight of Their Votes', Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling place...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2006]
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| Colección: | UNC Press law publications.
Women and the law. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In 'The Weight of Their Votes', Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive. Schuyler challenges popular scholarly opinion that women failed to wield their ballots effectively in the 1920s, arguing instead that in state and local politics, women made the most of their votes. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807876695 0807876690 9781469606224 1469606224 |