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Book SynopsisGo Get Mother''s Picket Sign tells the story of American suffragists who worked to balance their public and private lives as wives, mothers, and homemakers. American suffragists battled an intense fight against the idea that women in America could not engage in politics without also creating a great void in the home. It was believed that if women allowed this void to occur, the decline and decay of the home life would destroy 19th and 20th century society. Men could not help women fill the role of homemaker, as it was thought that men had neither experience nor the ability to learn the order and method of caring for home and children. The family framework known by Victorians remained doomed. However, to counter this concept, suffragists created a new woman who functioned in both the home and the public world. All of their suffrage materials showed that these women did not forget their responsibility to the home. Everything they used encompassed the right of suffrage and maintained the
Trade ReviewWith sparking research and moving prose, Cathleen Nista Rauterkus has offered us an original and groundbreaking subject, the importance of material culture associated with the Suffrage Movement in the United States. She explores and interprets new dimensions of American history by analyzing various themes of the subject and tying archival work with material culture, the influential and tangible tools found within women's suffrage. Readers will be drawn into the colorful material and wonderful fabric of Rauterkus' arguments. This is a masterful use of traditional historical documents as well as postcards, tea sets, dolls, dresses, and cartoons. -- Clifford Trafzer, Rupert Costo, Chair, Department of History, University of California, Riverside
Table of ContentsChapter 1 List of Figures Chapter 2 Acknowlegments Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Suffrage Explained Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Anti Backlash Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Madonna and Child Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Fashion Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Proper Hostesses Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Entering Public Space Chapter 10 Conclusion Chapter 11 Bibliography Chapter 12 Appendix
