Women's suffrage in the Americas / edited by Stephanie Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mitchell, Stephanie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Suffrage--America.

Women.

America--Politics and government.

America.

America--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Other Title:

Path to Open

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2024.

Summary:

The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the Americas pushes back against the misconception that women's movements originated in the United States. The volume brings Latin American voices to the forefront of English-language scholarship. Suffragists across the hemisphere worked together, formed collegial networks to support each other's work, and fostered advances toward women gaining the vote over time and space from one country to the next. The collection as a whole suggests several models by which women in the Americas gained the right to vote: through party politics; through decree, despite delays justified by women's supposed conservative politics; through conservative defense of traditional roles for women; and within the context of imperialism. However, until now historians have traditionally failed to view this common history through a hemispheric lens. The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the Americas pushes back against the misconception that women's movements originated in the United States. The volume brings Latin American voices to the forefront of English-language scholarship. Suffragists across the hemisphere worked together, formed collegial networks to support each other's work, and fostered advances toward women gaining the vote over time and space from one country to the next. The collection as a whole suggests several models by which women in the Americas gained the right to vote: through party politics; through decree, despite delays justified by women's supposed conservative politics; through conservative defense of traditional roles for women; and within the context of imperialism. However, until now historians have traditionally failed to view this common history through a hemispheric lens.-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Stephanie Mitchell

Scenario I : (Il?)liberal democratic scenario. "Affronting electoral law" : struggle, conquest, and approval of women's suffrage in Costa Rica (189

1949) / Eugenia Rodríguez Sáenz

Fractured landscapes : women and the long struggle for suffrage and political equality in Canada / Veronica Strong-Boag

The suffrage movement in the United States : demanding the right to vote across gender and racial lines in an (il?)liberal democracy / Susan Goodier

Scenario II : crisis of representation. Ideological and political obstacles to enfranchising women in Brazil / Teresa Cristina de Novaes Marques

History and interpretations of women's suffrage in Argentina / Adriana María Valobra

Women's suffrage in Colombia / Guiomar Dueñas Vargas

Scenario III : liberal delay. "Laughter in the chamber" : Mexico's long road to women's suffrage / Stephanie Mitchell

Women's history : historiographical proposals on how women obtained the suffrage in Chile / Claudia Montero and María Paz Vera

The history of women's suffrage in Nicaragua : an incomplete story / Victoria González-Rivera

Scenaro IV : perceived conservative strategic advantage. Without consideration of their sex? The uneven path to female suffrage in Ecuador, circa 1883-1940 / Erin E. O'Connor

Collective action for women's suffrage in Peru : political contexts, women's organizations, and public actors / Roisida Aguilar

Scenario V : imperialist scenario. Filipina women's political alterity under US empire, 1912-1937 / Christine Peralta

A look at the struggle for universal suffrage in Puerto Rico through the endeavors of two unusual women, Genara Pagán and Ricarda López de RAmos Casellas / Roxanna Domenech Cruz

Conclusion / Stephanie Mitchell.

Notes:

Title from online title page (viewed on November 7, 2024).

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Mitchell, Stephanie Women's Suffrage in the Americas

ISBN:

9780826366436

0826366430

OCLC:

1435752214

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.