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Book SynopsisTrade Review"From the brutal imprisonment narratives that roused a nation's sympathies to the suffragists' plight to the 'gender gap' in contemporary voting, this text is a rich collection of University of Illinois Press works on the American women’s suffrage quest and its aftermath.
100 Years of Women’s Suffrage highlights rarely discussed regional and racial approaches in the fight for women's 'first class citizenship' through a fascinating mix of primary accounts and historical and gender studies essays. A recommended anthology that rightly honors the Nineteenth Amendment's centennial."--Michelle R. Scott, author of
Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South"Offering a unique and creative way to reflect on the suffrage movement, this anthology includes a full gamut of suffrage-related topics and controversies. This collection from years of scholarship from some of the most important scholars of women and voting will enrich our understanding of the subject in all its diversity and range. In revisiting the arguments, it will assuredly prompt new scholarship on the movement."--Susan Goodier, coauthor of
No Votes for Women: The New York State Anti-Suffrage MovementTable of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Nancy A. Hewitt Part I The Cultural and Political Struggles for Enfranchisement
1 "The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement: Notes toward the Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Feminism"
Ellen Carol DuBoiś 2 "Mormon Women, Suffrage, and Citizenship at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair"
Andrea G. Radke-Moss 3 "Suffrage and Spectacle"
Mary Chapman and Barbara Green 4 "From
Prisons and Prisoners"
Lady Constance Lytton 5 "'Whether We Vote or Not--We are Going to Shoot': Women and Armed Defense on the Home Front"
Kimberly Jensen 6 "Unsightly Evidence: 'Female Inversion' and the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement"
Laura L. Behling Part II Winning and Wielding the Ballot
7 "Fighting for Rights in the 1910s and 1920s" (Excerpt)
Julie A. Gallagher 8 "New Women"
Nancy A. Hewitt 9 "We Just Kept Going"
Carolyn Daniels 10 "Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects of an All-Inclusive Sisterhood"
Bonnie Thornton Dill 11 "Sources of Political Unity and Disunity among Women: Placing the Gender Gap in Perspective"
Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte 12 "The Gender Gap: A Comparison across Racial and Ethnic Groups"
M. Margaret Conway List of Original Publications
Contributors
Index
