Suchergebnisse

"Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a crushing disappointment. DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered through the Jim Crow years into the reform era of Progressivism. She introduces new champions Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul, who brought the fight into the 20th century, and she shows how African American women, led by Ida B. Wells-Barnett, demanded voting rights even as white suffragists ignored them. DuBois explains how suffragists built a determined coalition of moderate lobbyists and radical demonstrators in forging a strategy of winning voting rights in crucial states to set the stage for securing suffrage for all American women in the Constitution. In vivid prose DuBois describes suffragists' final victories in Congress and state legislatures, culminating in the last, most difficult ratification, in Tennessee. DuBois follows women's efforts to use their voting rights to win political office, increase their voting strength, and pass laws banning child labor, ensuring maternal health, and securing greater equality for women. Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote is sure to become the authoritative account of one of the great episodes in the history of American democracy. (less) Professional Reviews Kirkus Reviews Kirkus Reviews November 2, 2019 Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which finally recognized women as participants in democracy, historian DuBois (History/UCLA; co-author: Through Women's Eyes: An American History With Documents, 2018, etc.) offers a lively, deeply researched history of the struggle for suffrage.From 1848, when Elizabeth Cady (read more) Library Journal Library Journal November 1, 2019 DuBois (Feminism and Suffrage) provides a digestible overview of the history of women's suffrage in America, making this book a good choice for those who are familiar with the basics of the movement but who want a deeper understanding of the ways the pieces fit together. Beginnning with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention-the first women's rights meeting (read more)"--

Ch. 1. America in the world, to 1650 -- Ch. 2. Colonial worlds, 1607-1750 -- Ch. 3. Mothers and daughters of the Revolution, 1750-1800 -- Ch. 4. Pedestal, loom, and auction block, 1800-1860 -- Ch. 5. Shifting boundaries : expansion, reform, and Civil War, 1840-1865 -- Ch. 6. Reconstructing women's lives North and South, 1865-1900 -- Ch. 7. Women in an expanding nation : consolidation of the West, mass immigration, and the crisis of the 1890s -- Ch. 8. Power and politics : women in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920 -- Ch. 9. Change and continuity : women in prosperity, Depression, and war, 1920-1945 -- Ch. 10. Beyond the feminine mystique : women's lives, 1945-1965 -- Ch. 11. Modern feminism and American society, 1965-1980 -- Ch.12. U.S. women in a global age, 1980-present

Frontmatter --Contents --Abbreviations --Preface --Acknowledgments /DuBois, Ellen Carol --Introduction --Chapter One. Women's Rights before the Civil War --Chapter Two. The Fourteenth Amendment and the American Equal Rights Association --Chapter Three. The Kansas Campaign of 1867 --Chapter Four. The Search for Allies: The Democratic Party and the National Labor Union --Chapter Five. The Search for a Constituency: The Working Women's Association --Chapter Six. The Fifteenth Amendment and the Emergence of Independent Suffragism --Bibliography --Index

Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940), daughter of the famous suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, played an essential role in the winning of woman suffrage in the Undited States. Ellen DuBois' powerfully written book is both a biography of Harriot Blatch and a new appraisal of the triumph and aftermath of the American woman suffrage movement. Blatch's dedication to woman suffrage, marked by a concern for social justice and human liberty, closely paralleled that of her mother. After her mother's death in 1902, Blatch returned to the United States. There she encouraged women from all classes to participate in the suffrage movement, advocated a lively activist style, and brought a genuine political sensibility to the movement. She led the 1913-15 votes for women referendum campaign in New York state and cofounded in 1916 the National Woman's Party. And though she devoted herself to enfranchisement, she also envisioned a feminism that encompassed economic power and independence for women. In telling the story of Blatch's life and work, DuBois reinterprets the history and politics of the American suffrage movement and its impact on women's freedom.

Married women's independent nationality was the lead issue among feminists in and around the League of Nations for most of the 1930s. This campaign began a process of acknowledgement of women's rights as a serious international issue which women themselves had a right to shape. The international feminist campaign for independent nationality for wives began in 1930, in connection with a League sponsored legal conference in The Hague. It then moved to the League of Nations itself, as feminist activists descended on Geneva to try and halt ratification of the conference findings. Although they failed, the issue remained alive into and through the early years of the United Nations, where independent nationality for women regardless of marital status ultimately was achieved. This contribution will recount the interwar history of this feminist project, focusing on the international dimension of this campaign, and highlighting in particular forgotten key actor(s) from the Americas and the Easts.