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Uprising : how women used the US Wwest to win the right to vote / Tiffany Lewis.
Van Pelt Library HQ1438.W45 L49 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Tiffany, author.
- Series:
- Rhetoric and public affairs series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--West (U.S.)--History.
- Women.
- History.
- Sex role--West (U.S.)--History.
- Sex role.
- Women--Suffrage--West (U.S.)--History.
- Women--Suffrage.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "While many scholars have studied why and how the Western states enfranchised women before the Eastern ones, this book instead examines the influence of the West on the US national suffrage movement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mythologizing the West: Abigail Scott Duniway's Mythic Frontier, 1884
- 1905
- ch. 2 Visualizing the West: Suffrage Maps' Imagery of Legitimacy, Civilization, and Continental Expansion, 1907
- 1917
- ch. 3 Dismissing the West: Antisuffragists' Wild and Woolly West, 1903
- 1919
- ch. 4 Defending the West: Helen Ring Robinson's and Jeannette Rankin's Western Domestication and Boosterism, 1913
- 1918
- ch. 5 Embodying the West: The Women Voters' Envoys' Transcontinental Car Travel, 1915.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781611863826
- 1611863821
- OCLC:
- 1142942009
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