The woman suffrage movement in America : a reassessment / Corrine M. McConnaughy, the Ohio State University, Columbus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McConnaughy, Corrine M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--United States.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book departs from familiar accounts of high-profile woman suffrage activists whose main concern was a federal constitutional amendment. It tells the story of woman suffrage as one involving the diverse politics of women across the country as well as the incentives of the men with the primary political authority to grant new voting rights - those in state legislatures. Through a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book explains the success and failures of efforts for woman suffrage provisions in five states and in the US Congress as the result of successful and failed coalitional politics between the suffrage movement and important constituencies of existing male voters, including farmers' organizations, labor unions, and the Populist and Progressive parties.

Contents:

Introduction : On states and suffrage

Bringing politics back in : suffrage supply and demand

Political meaning for woman suffrage

Programmatic enfranchisement : coalitional strategies for voting rights

Strong leverage : third-party support

Coalitional impossibilites : race, class, and failure

The national story

From the outside in

Appendix : Additional notes on measures and analyses.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-42395-3

1-107-42182-9

1-107-56705-X

1-107-41916-6

1-107-41644-2

1-107-42040-7

1-139-00510-3

1-107-41783-X

OCLC:

869090687