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To Be Equals in Our Own Country
To Be Equals in Our Own Country chronicles the bitter struggle for women's suffrage in Quebec, the last province to grant Canadian women this fundamental human right.
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Created equal : women campaign for the right to vote, 1840-1920
A brief history of American women's fight for voting rights.
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Southern Ladies and Suffragists
Women from all over the country came to New Orleans in 1884 for the Woman's Department of the Cotton Centennial Exposition, that portion of the World's Fair exhibition devoted to the celebration of women's affairs and industry. Their conversations and interactions played out as a drama of personalities and sectionalism at a transitional moment in the history of the nation. These women planted seeds at the Exposition that would have otherwise taken decades to drift southward.
This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at a world's fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer recreates the sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans after Civil War and Reconstruction. She focuses on how difficult unity was to achieve, even when diverse women professed a common goal. Such celebrities as Julia Ward Howe and Susan B. Anthony brought national debates on women's issues to the South for the first time, and journalists and ordinary women reacted. At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department became a petri dish where cultures clashed but where women from across the country exchanged views on propriety, jobs, education, and suffrage. Pfeffer memorializes women's exhibits of handwork, literary and scientific endeavors, inventions, and professions, but she proposes that the real impact of the six-month long event was a shift in women's self-conceptions of their public and political lives. For those New Orleans ladies who were ready to seize the opportunity of this uncommon forum, the Woman's Department offered a future that they had barely imagined.
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Votes for women! : American suffragists and the battle for the ballot
\"The story of the American women who demanded, fought for, and finally won the right to vote\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Votes For Women
Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the history of the movement in Britain from the nineteenth century to the postwar period, assessing important figures such as;* Emmeline Pankhurst and the militant wing* Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of the constitutional wing*Jennie Baines and her link with the international suffrage movements.
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Winning the vote for women
\"For years only men were allowed to vote, but women around the world were ready to fight and win their right to vote. Now, you can imagine you were there.\"--Back of book. 505:0 : An example for the world -- Why is voting important? -- Not fair! -- Seneca Falls -- Steps forward and steps back -- People power-for! -- People power-against! -- Early successes -- Winning in Canada -- Women of the Russian Revolution -- British suffragists -- British sufragettes -- Drastic actions -- Women in World War I -- After World War I -- suffrage in the U.S. -- More global success -- Women in World War II -- Opposite sides of the world -- Poet and protester -- From poverty to power -- The lioness of Lasabi -- Recent struggles -- Votes for Women! -- The fight for women's rights -- Towards equality -- Gender equality and you -- Hall of Fame -- Glossary -- Index.
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New women of the new South : the leaders of the woman suffrage movement in the southern states
There is currently much interest in the southern suffrage movement, yet historians have no comprehensive history of the woman suffrage fight in the South. Wheeler has elected to focus on eleven of the movement’s most prominent women at the regional and national levels. She explores the range of opinions within this group on many subjects, with a particular emphasis on race and state’s rights. These are the women who created and guided the movement and were primarily responsible for its tone, tactics, and strategy. Although Wheeler discusses these women as suffragists, she also sees them as reformers, feminists, political theorists, and strategists. By focusing on the southern movement’s leadership, Wheeler establishes the larger feminist agenda of the suffrage leader—they offered woman suffrage as a way of eliminating black voting strength. While demanding an end to discrimination against women, many leading suffragists promoted woman suffrage as a means of preserving white supremacy and systematic discrimination against blacks. The author also emphasizes the relationship between the northern and southern leaders, which was one of mutual influence. The northern suffragists did not just permit, but encouraged and hoped to profit from, the exploitation of the race issue in the South. The study of the southern suffrage movement is essential to a full understanding of the history of woman suffrage, of American women, of the South, of the Progressive Era, and of American reform movements.
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Suffragette : the battle for equality
The year 2018 marks a century since the first women won the vote in the United Kingdom, and this book tells the story of their fight. This is a tale of astounding bravery, ingenuity and strength. David's conversational style is accessible and his artwork full of rich detail, bringing to life the many vivid characters of the Suffragette movement - from the militant activist and wheelchair user Rosa May Billinghurst to the world-famous Emmeline Pankhurst.
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The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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