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Picturing Political Power - Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement (Hardcover)
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Picturing Political Power - Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement (Hardcover)
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Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of
the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to
change history. For as long as women have battled for equitable
political representation in America, those battles have been
defined by images--whether illustrations, engravings, photographs,
or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have
been flattering, many have been condescending, and others downright
incendiary. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural ideas of
women's perceived roles and abilities and often have been
circulated with pointedly political objectives. Picturing Political
Power offers perhaps the most comprehensive analysis yet of the
connection between images, gender, and power. In this examination
of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth
Amendment in 1920, Allison K. Lange explores how suffragists
pioneered one of the first extensive visual campaigns in modern
American history. She shows how pictures, from early engravings and
photographs to colorful posters, proved central to suffragists'
efforts to change expectations for women, fighting back against the
accepted norms of their times. In seeking to transform notions of
womanhood and win the right to vote, white suffragists emphasized
the compatibility of voting and motherhood, while Sojourner Truth
and other leading suffragists of color employed pictures to secure
respect and authority. Picturing Political Power demonstrates the
centrality of visual politics to American women's campaigns
throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing
the power of images to change history.
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