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Votes for Women - A Portrait of Persistence (Hardcover)
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Votes for Women - A Portrait of Persistence (Hardcover)
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A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the United
States that highlights underrecognized activists Marking the
centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920,
Votes for Women is the first richly illustrated book to reveal the
history and complexity of the national suffrage movement. For
nearly a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century onward,
countless American women fought for the right to vote. While some
of the leading figures of the suffrage movement have received
deserved appreciation, the crusade for women's enfranchisement
involved many individuals, each with a unique story to be told.
Weaving together a diverse collection of portraits and other visual
materials-including photographs, drawings, paintings, prints,
textiles, and mixed media-along with biographical narratives and
trenchant essays, this comprehensive book presents fresh
perspectives on the history of the movement. Bringing attention to
underrecognized individuals and groups, the leading historians
featured here look at how suffragists used portraiture to promote
gender equality and other feminist ideals, and how photographic
portraits in particular proved to be a crucial element of women's
activism and recruitment. The contributors also explore the reasons
why certain events and leaders of the suffrage movement have been
remembered over others, the obstacles that black women faced when
organizing with white suffragists and the subsequent founding of
black women's suffrage groups, the foundations of the violent
antisuffrage movement, and the ways suffragists held up American
women physicians who served in France during World War I as
exemplary citizens, deserving the right to vote. With nearly 200
color illustrations, Votes for Women offers a more complete picture
of American women's suffrage, one that sheds new light on the
movement's relevance for our own time. Published in association
with the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
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