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Selling suffrage : consumer culture & votes for women / Margaret Finnegan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finnegan, Margaret, 1965-
- Series:
- Popular cultures, everyday lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Suffrage--United States--History.
- Women.
- Women--Suffrage.
- Advertising--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Women's rights--United States--History.
- Women's rights.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Advertising--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Advertising.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [1999]
- Summary:
- Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern."
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Consumer Culture and Woman Suffrage Ideology 15
- Chapter 2 "So Much Color and Dash": Woman Suffragists, Public Space, and Commercial Culture 45
- Chapter 3 On Stage: Personality, the Performing Self, and the Represention of Woman Suffragists 77
- Chapter 4 From Sunflower Badges to Kewpie Dolls: Woman Suffrage Commodities and the Embrace of Consumer Capitalism 111
- Chapter 5 Selling Suffrage News: Consumerism and The Woman's Journal 139
- Chapter 6 Ringing in a New Day 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]- 208) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0231107382
- 0231107390
- OCLC:
- 39007057
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