The weight of their votes : southern women and political leverage in the 1920s / Lorraine Gates Schuyler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuyler, Lorraine Gates.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Southern States--History--20th century.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--Southern States--History--20th century.

Political participation--Southern States--History--20th century.

Political participation.

Voting--Southern States--History--20th century.

Voting.

Southern States--Politics and government--20th century.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. This book examines the consequences this had in states across the South. It shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive.

Contents:

Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s

More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement

Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters

Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South

The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote

No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters

To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908790-2-8

1-4696-0622-4

0-8078-7669-0

OCLC:

476268728