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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 Shaw's oft-ignored early years and challenges existing scholarship on her time in the suffrage movement. An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the adoption of non-traditional gender roles. Challenging traditional gender boundaries throughout her life, she put herself through college, worked as an ordained minister and a doctor, and built a tightly-knit family with her secretary and longtime companion Lucy E. Anthony. Drawing on unprecedented research, Franzen shows how these circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues. Franzen also rehabilitates Shaw's years as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, arguing that Shaw's much-belittled tenure actually marked a renaissance of both NAWSA and the suffrage movement as a whole. Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage presents a clear and compelling portrait of a woman whose significance has too long been misinterpreted and misunderstood.

[...]his suffragette sister-in-law and anti-suffrage male neighbor pass through his sitting room in Brixton. La Follette biographer, Bernard A. Weisberger describes Fola as a \"warrior for justice\" and contends that had she \"been born male, the pull of politics as the family business would likely have drawn her career choices toward law or journalism. The writer emphasizes that La Follette and Middleton are committed to \"the promotion of the Actors' Equity Association\" whose object is \"to organize actors and actresses of the American stage in order to secure from managers certain concessions that will make the actor's lot an easier one. The matinee event was a watershed moment in the transatlantic exchange of suffrage protest and spectacle techniques.110 Among the plays performed was How the Vote Was Won and La Follette played the role of Ethel Cole, Horace's wife.

This essay explores a specific historical example-the experiences of the Cleveland Street Railway conductorets during World War I-in order to shed light on how women's roles in the workplace were framed during World War I. A rhetoric of paradox framed the arguments of street railway owners, government officials, Progressive Era reformers, and female street railway workers who variously argued for or against women's participation in jobs traditionally deemed \"men's work.\" The article explores how the paradox was managed through arguments of expediency and arguments of feasibility.

Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote. When the last Swiss canton enfranchised women in 1990, few countries barred women from the polls. Why did pro-suffrage activists in the United States and Switzerland have such varying success? Comparing suffrage campaigns in forty-eight American states and twenty-five Swiss cantons, Lee Ann Banaszak argues that movement tactics, beliefs, and values are critical in understanding why political movements succeed or fail. The Swiss suffrage movement's beliefs in consensus politics and local autonomy and their reliance on government parties for information limited their tactical choices--often in surprising ways. In comparison, the American suffrage movement, with its alliances to the abolition, temperance, and progressive movements, overcame beliefs in local autonomy and engaged in a wider array of confrontational tactics in the struggle for the vote. Drawing on interviews with sixty Swiss suffrage activists, detailed legislative histories, census materials, and original archival materials from both countries, Banaszak blends qualitative historical inquiry with informative statistical analyses of state and cantonal level data. The book expands our understanding of the role of political opportunities and how they interact with the beliefs and values of movements and the societies they seek to change.

This essay argues that Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anna Howard Shaw, and Carrie Chapman Catt discursively enacted different stages in the evolution of a rhetorical vision for woman's rights. Through close examination of the rhetorical choices in the \"classic speeches\" of these three rhetors: Stanton's \"The Solitude of Self\" (1892), Shaw's \"The Fundamental Principle of a Republic\" (1915), and Catt's \"The Crisis\" (1916), it invites scholars to recognize the value of comparative critique in preserving the \"complex tapestry\" of the early woman's rights movement. This analysis claims that a compelling rhetorical vision of woman's rights emerged as each rhetor assumed one of the required leadership roles of social movements (prophet, charismatic, and pragmatist), co-opted an existing cause (existentialism, Methodism, and social Darwinism) to support key elements of a woman's rights philosophy, and adopted a familiar persona that appealed to a different primary audience (universal audience, general public, suffrage rank and file).

This chapter reviews Anna Howard Shaw's life and accomplishments, and presents some final thoughts. The author says that over the years of researching Anna Howard Shaw, she was driven by a quest to understand not only the life of this remarkable woman but also how women's history transformed this transgressive, irreverent pioneering woman into an incompetent and conservative leader. She argues that denying the immensity of Shaw's contributions to woman suffrage demands ignoring a great deal of documentation. Although one book and one view can hardly answer all the questions concerning Shaw's place in U.S. and woman suffrage history, hopefully this biography, by bringing new sources and new evidence into the discussion and by reframing the issues, has kept the inquiry open.