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Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote /
For too long the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the visionary adventures of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born, who spearheaded a national movement. In this essential reconsideration, Susan Ware uncovers a much broader and more diverse history waiti...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2019.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: A walk through suffrage history
- Part One. Claiming citizenship. The trial of Susan B. Anthony and the "Rochester Fifteen" ; Sojourner Truth speaks truth to power ; Sister-wives and suffragists ; Alice Stone Blackwell and the Armenian crisis of the 1890s ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman finds her voice
- Part Two. The personal is political. The shadow of the Confederacy ; Ida Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club ; Two sisters ; Claiborne Caitlin's suffrage pilgrimage ; "How it feels to be the husband of a suffragette" ; The farmer-suffragettes ; Suffragists abroad
- Part Three. Winning strategies. Mountaineering for suffrage ; Hazel MacKaye and the "allegory" of woman suffrage ; "Bread and roses" and votes for women too ; Cartooning with a feminist twist ; Jailed for freedom ; Maud Wood Park and the Front Door Lobby ; Tennessee's "Perfect 36"
- Epilogue: "Leaving all to younger hands."