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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...
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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: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s
- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement
- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters
- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South
- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote
- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters
- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.