Suffrage at 100 : women in American politics since 1920 / edited by Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taranto, Stacie, editor.

Zarnow, Leandra Ruth, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--United States--History.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History.

Women--Suffrage.

Women--Political activity.

History.

United States.

Women politicians--United States.

Women politicians.

Women political activists--United States.

Women political activists.

United States--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Suffrage at one hundred

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The volume editors have assembled a diverse set of contributors (twenty-two scholars) who take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A History of Women in American Politics and the Enduring Male Political Citizenship Ideal / Leandra Zarnow

pt. I VOTING RIGHTS REAL AND IMAGINED Women's Political Engagement in the Decades after Suffrage, 19205-1950s

2. Commemorating the History of the Nineteenth Amendment

The National Woman's Party and the Politics of Memory in the 1920s / Claire Delahaye

3. After the "Century of Struggle"

The Nineteenth Amendment, Southern African American Women, and the Problem of Female Disenfranchisement after 1920 / Liette Gidlow

4. "My Money's on the Mare"

Lessons from the 1930 US Senate Campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormick / Johanna Neuman

5. "A Dead Husband Is a Better Ticket to Congress Than a Log Cabin"

The Public Discourse of Widows in Office, 1920-1940 / Katherine Parkin

6. Beyond the New Deal Network

Mary Elizabeth Switzer at the Federal Security Agency, 1939-1945 / Dean J. Kotlowski

7. Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and Indigenous Women's Activism, 1943-1947 / Holly Miowak Guise

8. "These Men Have Such Dominant Positions"

The Women's Committee for Educational Freedom and the Gendered Battle for Liberalism in the 1940s / Nancy Beck Young

9. "I Have Talked to You Not as Women but as American Citizens"

The Gender Ideology of Presidential Campaigns, 1940-1956 / Melissa Estes Blair

pt. II WOMEN'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP TAKES SHAPE Reform and Reaction, 1960S-1980S

10. From Suffragist to Congresswoman

Celebrating Political Action, Women's History, and Feminist Intellectuals in Ms. Magazine, 1972.-1984 / Ana Stevenson

11. "You Know Where I Stand"

Louise Day Hicks, and the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender, 1963-1975 / Kathleen Banks Nutter

12. On the Shirley Chisholm Trail

The Legacy of Suffrage and Citizenship Engagement / Barbara Winslow

13. Envisioning the National Women's Conference

Patsy Takemoto Mink and Pacific Feminism / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

14. Married Congresswomen and the New Breed of Political Husbands in 1970s Political Culture / Sarah B. Rowley

15. Madame Ambassador

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Global Diplomacy / Bianca Rowlett

pt. III LOOKING TOWARD A NEW CENTURY Women in Politics, 1990S-2010s

16. Palin versus Clinton

Feminism, Womanhood, and the 2008 Presidential Election / Emily Suzanne Johnson

17. Tribute Politics

How Feminist History Became a Reference Point in the 2016 Election / Nicole Eaton

18. Rooted in Community

The Scholarship of Chicana Political Leadership and Activism / Marisela R. Chavez

19. Pave It Blue

Georgia Women and Politics in the Trump Era / Ellen G. Rafshoon

20. Putting Women on a Pedestal

Monument Debates in the Era of the Suffrage Centennial / Monica L. Mercado

21. Toward a New New Deal... and the Women Will Lead / Eileen Boris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781421438689

1421438682

OCLC:

1140706951