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Anna Howard Shaw : the work of woman suffrage /

"Acknowledged by her contemporaries as the most outstanding woman suffrage orator of her time, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) has nonetheless received minimal attention from historians. Trisha Franzen rectifies that oversight with this first scholarly biography of Shaw, a study that illuminates S...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Franzen, Trisha, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2014]
Series:Women in American history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Facing contradictions; 1. The development of a dissenter (1847-1870); 2. The road to independence (1871-1880); 3. Finding the cause (1881-1889); 4. Apprenticeship in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890-1903); 5. Compromised leadership: NAWSA Presidency, Part 1 (1904-1908); 6. Creating her vision: NAWSA Presidency, Part II (1909-1912); 7. Unanticipated challenges, NAWSA Presidency, Part III (1913-1915); 8. A worker to the end (1916-1919); Epilogue: Anna Howard Shaw and women's history; Notes on sources; Notes; Index; Illustrations.