Why they marched : untold stories of the women who fought for the right to vote / Susan Ware.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ware, Susan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

Suffragists--United States--History.

Suffragists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 345 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Looking beyond the national leadership of the suffrage movement, Susan Ware tells the inspiring story of nineteen dedicated women who carried the banner for the vote into communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and demonstrating for women's right to become full citizens.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: A Walk through Suffrage History

PART ONE. Claiming Citizenship

1. The Trial of Susan B. Anthony and the "Rochester Fifteen"

2. Sojourner Truth Speaks Truth to Power

3. Sister-Wives and Suffragists

4. Alice Stone Blackwell and the Armenian Crisis of the 1890s

5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Finds Her Voice

PART TWO. The Personal Is Political

6. The Shadow of the Confederacy

7. Ida Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club

8. Two Sisters

9. Claiborne Catlin's Suffrage Pilgrimage

10. "How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette"

11. The Farmer-Suffragettes

12. Suffragists Abroad

PART THREE. Winning Strategies

13. Mountaineering for Suffrage

14. Hazel MacKaye and the "Allegory" of Woman Suffrage

15. "Bread and Roses" and Votes for Women Too

16. Cartooning with a Feminist Twist

17. Jailed for Freedom

18. Maud Wood Park and the Front Door Lobby

19. Tennessee's "Perfect 36"

Epilogue: "Leaving All to Younger Hands"

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780674240803

0674240804

9780674240797

0674240790

OCLC:

1091899779