Woman suffrage and women’s rights / Ellen Carol DuBois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DuBois, Ellen Carol, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

Women.

Local Subjects:

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

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New York University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An essential examination of the woman suffrage movementIn recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it. This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman suffrage and includes two new essays. The collection traces the trajectory of the suffrage story against the backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and abolitionism, sexuality and religion, and class and politics. Connecting the essays is DuBois' belief in the continuing importance of political and reform movements as an object of historical inquiry and a force in shaping gender. The book, which includes a highly original reconceptualization of women's rights from Mary Wollstonecraft to contemporary abortion and gay rights activists and a historiographical overview of suffrage scholarship, provides an excellent overview of the movement, including international as well as U.S. suffragism, in the context of women's broader concerns for social and political justice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Last Suffragist

2. The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement

3. Politics and Culture in Women’s History

4. Women’s Rights and Abolition

5. The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movement and the Analysis of Women’s Oppression

6. Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers

7. Taking the Law into Our Own Hands

8. Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield

9. The Limitations of Sisterhood

10. Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance

11. Making Women’s History

12. Eleanor Flexner and the History of American Feminism

13. Woman Suffrage and the Left

14. A Vindication of Women’s Rights

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

0-8147-8540-9

0-585-43471-9

OCLC:

784884487