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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : unlikely champion of women's rights /
A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign. Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and tha. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0253005604 9780253005601 9786613528254 6613528250 |