Suffrage at 100 : women in American politics since 1920 / edited by Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow.
"The volume editors have assembled a diverse set of contributors (twenty-two scholars) who take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920"--
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2020]
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| Physical Description: | ix, 457 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Suffrage at one hundred |
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Contents:
- Introduction: From voting power to political power
- A history of women in American politics and the enduring male political citizenship ideal / Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow
- Commemorating the history of the Nineteenth Amendment : the National Woman's Party and the politics of memory in the 1920s / Claire Delahaye
- After the 'century of struggle' : the Nineteenth Amendment, Southern African American women, and the problem of female disfranchisement after 1920 / Liette Gidlow
- 'My money's on the mare' : lessons from the 1930 US Senate campaign of Ruth Hanna McCormick / Johanna Neuman
- 'A dead husband is a better ticket to Congress than a log cabin' : the public discourse of widows in office, 1920-1940 / Katherine Parkin
- Beyond the New Deal network : Mary Elizabeth Switzer at the Federal Security Agency, 1939-1945 / Dean Kotlowski
- Elizabeth Peratrovich, the Alaska Native Sisterhood, and indigenous women's activism, 1943-1947 / Holly Miowak Guise
- 'These men have such dominant positions' : the Women's Committee for Educational Freedom and the gendered battle for liberalism in the 1940s / Nancy Beck Young
- 'I have talked to you not as women but as American citizens' : the gender ideology of presidential campaigns, 1940-1956 / Melissa Estes Blair
- From suffragist to congresswoman : celebrating political action, women's history, and feminist intellectuals in Ms. magazine, 1972-1984 / Ana Stevenson
- 'You know where I stand' : Louise Day Hicks, and the politics of race, class and gender, 1963-1975 / Kathleen Banks Nutter
- 'On the Shirley Chisholm trail' : the legacy of suffrage and citizenship engagement / Barbara Winslow
- Envisioning the National Women's Conference : Patsy Takemoto Mink and pacific feminism / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
- Married congresswomen and the new breed of political husbands in 1970s political culture / Sarah B. Rowley
- Madame Ambassador : Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and global diplomacy / Bianca Rowlett
- Palin vs. Clinton : feminism, womanhood, and the 2008 presidential election / Emily Suzanne Johnson
- Tribute politics : how feminist history became a reference point in the 2016 election / Nicole Eaton
- Rooted in community : the scholarship of Chicana leadership and activism / Marisela R. Chávez
- 'Pave it blue' : Georgia women and politics in the Trump era / Ellen Rafshoon
- Putting women on a pedestal : monument debates in the era of the suffrage centennial / Monica L. Mercado
- Toward a new New Deal ... and the women will lead / Eileen Boris.