How the vote was won : woman suffrage in the western United States, 1868-1914 / Rebecca J. Mead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mead, Rebecca J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--West (U.S.)--History.

Women.

Women's rights.

West United States.

Genre:

History

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens? In this provocative new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that Western suffrage.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1. Superrats: The New Breed of Sexual Individualists; 2. Portrait of a Generation: Male and Female Sex Patterns Converge; 3. Changing Sexual Scripts: A Close-Up; 4. Virginity Reimagined: No Sex and the Single Girl; 5. Modern Marriage: From Meal Ticket to Best Friend; 6. Choices for Remaining Single: "She's Gonna Make It after All"; 7. Lesbians and Bisexuals Out and Proud: "The Groping Generation"; 8. Education and Jobs, the Sexual Revolution, and the Women's Movement: The Foundation; Notes; Bibliography.

Notes:

IndexAbout the Author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-262) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780814759912

0814759912

9780814761175

0814761178

9781417568727

1417568720

OCLC:

913695242