Alice Paul and the American suffrage campaign / Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adams, Katherine H., 1954-

Contributor:

Keene, Michael L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, Alice, 1885-1977.

Suffragists--United States--Biography.

Suffragists.

United States.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History.

Women--Suffrage.

History.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]

Summary:

Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence.

Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage.

Contents:

Alice Paul's formation as activist

The commitment to nonviolence

Reaching the group through words and pictures

Parades and other events : escalating the nonviolent pressure

Lobbying and deputations

The political boycott

Picketing Wilson

Hunger strikes and jail

At nonviolent war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780252032202

0252032209

9780252074714

0252074718

OCLC:

141187851