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Book Synopsis"Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Introduction.
Trade Review"Winner, Secretary’s Research Prize, Smithsonian Congress of Scholars"
"Richly illustrated. . . . The catalog, to debut with the exhibition, is the first scholarly examination of the entire American women’s suffrage history in one book." * ARTFIX daily *
"The show’s ample 289-page catalog provides rigorously-researched evidence that the history we’ve relied on for decades, delivered in grade school civics classes was in part myth, and, a literal white-washing of some of the movement’s key players."
---Alicia Ault, Smithsonianmag.com"[An] excellent and extensive catalogue."
---Mark Jenkins, Washington Post"
Votes for Women! A Portrait of Persistence . . . [is an] important contribution to the history of women’s rights. . . . [The] visuals include stunning portraits of movement leaders, action shots of major suffrage milestones such as the March suffrage procession in DC, and even examples of suffragists’ rich material culture, such as sashes and dinnerware. . . . By centering a diverse array of women, including images and material culture, and presenting classic and cutting-edge scholarship, Votes for Women provides one of the most valuable contributions to the centennial outpouring of new work on the suffrage movement.
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---Kimberly A. Hamlin, Journal of American Studies"
Votes for Women! [is] a handsomely illustrated volume edited by Kate Clarke Lemay. The book straddles popular and scholarly history while simultaneously providing a complex, rather than merely celebratory, view of the suffrage movement and its legacies. [The book] is a hybrid creature—part scholarly essays written to be accessible to a general audience, part historical narrative, and part gorgeous and ambitious exhibition catalog with the easy visual appeal of a coffee-table book.
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---Victoria Olwell, Journal of American History"
Votes for Women is a compelling visual biography of the suffrage movement through artifacts and rare photographs. Tracing the movement through time, Clarke Lemay brings readers on a cinematic journey through the many chapters of the movement, marked by its various alliances with abolitionists, Native American land-rights activists, and even advocates for the temperance movement. Perhaps most importantly,
Votes for Women removes suffragists like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zitkala-Sa, Sarah Parker Remond and Fannie Lou Hamer from the cold pages of archives, underscoring to readers that women activists have always come from diverse backgrounds."
---Emma Levy, Seattle Times"Full of intriguing references to how much more there is to know. . . . [A] thoughtful, appealingly-designed book."
---Eve M. Kahn, Nineteenth Century
