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By Jean H. Baker

In Votes For Women, Jean H. Baker has assembled a powerful selection of new scholarship at the fight of yankee ladies for the suffrage. all of the 11 essays illuminates a few point of the lengthy conflict that lasted from the 1850s to the passage of the suffrage modification in 1920. From the movement's antecedents within the minds of girls like Mary Wollstonecraft and Frances Wright, to the old collecting at Seneca Falls in 1848, to the civil disobedience in the course of international warfare I orchestrated by way of the nationwide Woman's celebration, the fundamental parts of this tumultuous tale emerge in those finely-tuned chapters. So too do the subjects and old controversies approximately suffrage and its leaders, together with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner fact, and Alice Paul. members concentrate on how the suffrage conflict was once interwoven with constitutional matters on the federal and country point and the way the suffrage fight performed out in numerous areas, in particular the West and the South, in addition to the actions of competitors to women's balloting. Baker's introductory essay units the level for revisiting suffrage by means of making particular the similarities and variations in interpretations of suffrage and indicates how the move intersected with different occasions in American historical past and can't be studied in isolation from them. This quantity is key examining for these attracted to American politics and women's formal participation in it.

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