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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : unlikely champion of women's rights / Sylvia D. Hoffert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffert, Sylvia D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Suffragists--United States--Biography.
- Suffragists.
- Women political activists--United States--Biography.
- Women political activists.
- Women--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women's rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Women's rights.
- Socialites--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Socialites.
- Rich people--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Rich people.
- Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933.
- Belmont, Alva.
- Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933--Political and social views.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign. Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and
- Contents:
- An Impossible Child
- Every Inch a General
- A Sex Battle
- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose
- Belmont's Orphan Child
- The Last Word
- Postscript: My Turn
- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613528254
- 9781280124396
- 1280124393
- 9780253005601
- 0253005604
- OCLC:
- 775866852
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