Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 (Paperback)

Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities-in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge's detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women's Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement's goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	University of Iowa Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Iowa and the Midwest Experience
Release date:	March 2018
Authors:	Sara Egge
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	242
ISBN-13:	978-1-60938-557-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > American history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-60938-557-8
Barcode:	9781609385576

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