The women's suffrage movement /
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2019Description: 519 pagesContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143132431
- 0143132431
- 324.6/230973 23
- JK1896 .W46 2019
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An intersectional anthology of works by the known and unknown women that shaped and established the suffrage movement, in time for the 2020 centennial of women's right to vote, with a foreword by Gloria Steinem
Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries, The Women's Suffrage Movement is a comprehensive and singular volume with a distinctive focus on incorporating race, class, and gender, and illuminating minority voices. This one-of-a-kind intersectional anthology features the writings of the most well-known suffragists, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, alongside accounts of those often overlooked because of their race, from Native American women to African American suffragists like Ida B. Wells and the three Forten sisters. At a time of enormous political and social upheaval, there could be no more important book than one that recognizes a group of exemplary women--in their own words--as they paved the way for future generations. The editor and introducer, Sally Roesch Wagner, is a pre-eminent scholar of the diverse backbone of the women's suffrage movement, the founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, and serves on the New York State Women's Suffrage Commission.
Includes bibliographical references.
Women voted before the United States was formed -- Women organized before Seneca Falls -- The 1850s : the movement takes off -- The 1860s : in full stride, the war's setback, and regrouping after -- The 1870s : a decade of progress, loss, and refining tactics -- "The centennial year-1876," history of woman suffrage -- The 1880s : a decade of progress and danger -- The 1890s : suffrage victories and moral decay -- The 1900s : consolidating power -- 1910 : nearing the finish line for suffrage -- 1920 : the final victory.
"Comprised of historical texts spanning two centuries with commentary on each period by the editor, this book covers the major issues and figures involved in the women's suffrage movement with a special focus on diversity, incorporating race, class, and gender. The writings of such figures as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are featured alongside accounts of Native American women and African American suffragists such as Sarah Mapps Douglas and Harriet Purvis"--
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Library Journal Review
Roesch Wagner (Sisters in Spirit) gathers two centuries of historical work about the U.S. women's suffrage movement in this dense intersectional anthology. With a foreword by Gloria Steinem, this collection contains not only works by well-known suffragists such as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton but prose by suffragist Ida B. Wells and other women of color, whose contributions to securing women's right to vote have been largely ignored because of their race. Wagner exposes the problematic history of racism within the movement and reveals connections between women's suffrage and the civil rights movement. The anthology traces the fight for women's suffrage from its start through early state victories until the suffrage amendment was finally ratified in 1920. Each chapter outlines and explains the accompanying historical texts. Pro-suffrage voices are not the only ones included; Wagner also highlights work by women and men opposed to the movement, truly rounding out the diverse voices contributing to this volume. VERDICT An essential compilation for libraries wishing to add to their women's studies and history collections.-Venessa Hughes, Denver © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly Review
Women's studies scholar Wagner (She Who Holds the Sky: Matilda Joslyn Gage) assembles a hefty and somewhat idiosyncratic compendium of primary source documents that charts the long road to the passage of the 19th Amendment, the 100th anniversary of which will arrive in 2020. Wagner explains in the volume's introduction that it's impossible to create a definitive collection from such a large movement; instead, as editor, she functions as a "tour guide pointing out some high spots along the way." Most of the sources come from white women, especially movement leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The selections are sometimes odd: part one, "Women Voted Before the United States was Formed," contains no documents from the colonial period nor any generated by Native American women, and the last chapter, on the final suffrage victory, contains only one source describing the amendment's ratification in Tennessee. Selections in the intervening sections better illuminate the struggle for suffrage, including Stanton's foundational "Declaration of Sentiments," Anthony's call for universal suffrage, and Mary Church Terrell's examination of the 15th Amendment. Despite its length, this is-just as Wagner explains-not a comprehensive history of the movement, but the documents contained within are valuable and illuminating. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.Booklist Review
Historian Wagner's brimming historical anthology presents a rich and arresting array of letters, speeches, book excerpts, press coverage, congressional reports, petitions, and more within a vivid and expertly composed social context, creating a spectacularly new, inclusive, and enlightening approach to the long, complicated, and contentious battle over myriad women's rights issues. Familiar figures are viewed from fresh perspectives, while the reclamation of overlooked and diverse suffragists exponentially expands our understanding of just how many-faceted and daunting the pursuit of gender equality has been and continues to be. The most salient element is recognition of the deep influence the gender-equal Iroquois nations had on suffragists, beginning with Matilda Joslyn Gage. Wagner also offers an in-depth look at the struggle to fight simultaneously for both women's rights and the abolition of slavery, and she confirms the role of African American suffragists, including Ida B. Wells. With a penetrating foreword by Gloria Steinem and Wagner's astute and fluent blend of fact and analysis, this is a superbly informative, debate-igniting, and timely resource as we look ahead to 2020 and the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment.--Donna Seaman Copyright 2010 BooklistKirkus Book Review
Primary documents provide insight into the struggles within the women's suffrage movement in the United States up until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920.Historian Wagner (Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists, 2001, etc.) opens with a chapter about the key role of women in the Iroquois Confederacy in upstate New York before the United States became a nation. "Unlike almost every other historian," writes Gloria Steinem in the foreword, "[Wagner] doesn't treat this country as if it began with Columbus." Wagner then moves on to discuss the development of the women's suffrage movement in the decades before the first national women's rights convention in 1850. Covering the years from the 1850s to 1920, the editor devotes a chapter to the events of each decade. An introduction to each chapter provides a generous amount of historical context, which brings the implications of the primary documentssome of which are included in full and others of which are excerptedinto focus. These documents include speeches at women's rights conventions and to the general public, and they reveal the striking tensions between various factions of the movement as well as their commonalities. Wagner broadens her subject to include not just discussions of women's suffrage, but also birth control, "free love," divorce, and women's economic and social rights. The structure of the volume makes clear the protracted nature of the struggle and how many now-little-known individuals were involved in it in addition to famous figures like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Wagner never hesitates to point out the flaws in her subjects and the movement, notable among which is the fact that the "suffragists," as they called themselves, were often casually or even intentionally racist, arguing that educated white women were more deserving of political power than ex-slaves.Abundantly useful for aspiring scholars, while those with a casual interest in the subject will be struck by its surprising complexity. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Sally Roesch Wagner is the founding director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, New York and currently serves as adjunct faculty in the honors program at Syracuse University. She is a member of the New York State Women's Suffrage Commission and a consultant to the National Women's History Project. Author of numerous women's history books and articles telling the "untold stories", her recent publications center on the Haudenosaunee influence on the women's rights movement. Wagner appeared in the Ken Burns PBS documentary, " Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony " for which she wrote the accompanying faculty guide for PBS, was a historian in the PBS special, " One Woman, One Vote " and has been interviewed on NPR's " All Things Considered " and " Democracy Now ."Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. Her books include the bestsellers My Life on the Road , Revolution from Within , Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions , Moving Beyond Words , Marilyn: Norma Jeane , and As if Women Matter . Steinem has received the National Magazine Award, the Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of Writers Award from the United Nations, and many others. In 2013, she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.
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