No vote for women : the denial of suffrage in reconstruction America / Bernadette Cahill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cahill, Bernadette, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--United States--History--19th century.

Women.

Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.

Women's rights.

Women--Suffrage.

History.

United States.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated. This book weaves Anthony's and Stanton's campaigns together with national and congressional events, in the process uncovering relationships between events and revealing the devastating impact on the women and their campaign for civil rights for all citizens"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Negro's hour

Men only

Women need not apply

On their own

That word "male"

Petitions, obstruction, and reform

The American Equal Rights Association

The Fourteenth Amendment and that word "male"

Censorship, suffrage campaigning and New York State

Campaign penury, organizational skills and cooperation

Equal suffrage for Washington, D.C.

Woman's champion

Stanton speaks

The war of the politicians

Enter Kansas

The end of cooperation

Stepping forward in Kansas

Not another man

AERA discord

Anti-woman sentiment

Fighting on two fronts

Albany goes down

Kansas heats up

Another Albany skirmish

The women's money stolen

Reinforcements

Kansas: men v. citizens

Desperate measures

Waiting for train

Unprecedented audiences

Against men's arguments against women

Campaigning for the forgotten woman

One of the best misunderstood statesmen

Women at the polls

No press, pulpit or politicians

Finding their voice

The aftermath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476673332

1476673330

OCLC:

1081437440

Publisher Number:

40029538705