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"This scholarly-based, popularly written text engages students with the history of how women overcame two centuries of discrimination, property foreclosures, rotten eggs, jail time, state and federal defeats and racism to win the right to vote. How Women Won the Vote will serve as a welcome text in courses in U.S., Women's Political, or Cultural history. It will also be useful as a reference for graduate seminars or colloquia"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. A Club of Their Own -- 2. The Celebrity Endorsement -- 3. The Birth of a Rivalry -- 4. A Rivalry Collapses -- 5. The Gilded Face of Modernity -- 6. Mere Men -- 7. The Tactical Turn -- 8. The Great Wars -- 9. Who Won Suffrage? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author