Research Catalog

Title

And yet they persisted : how American women won the right to vote / Johanna Neuman.

Author

Neuman, Johanna

Publication

• Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

xiv, 268 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

• "This scholarly-based, popularly written text engages students with the history of how women overcame two centuries of discrimination, property foreclosures, rotten eggs, jail time, state and federal defeats and racism to win the right to vote. How Women Won the Vote will serve as a welcome text in courses in U.S., Women's Political, or Cultural history. It will also be useful as a reference for graduate seminars or colloquia"--
• And Yet They Persisted traces agitation for the vote over two centuries, from the revolutionary era to the civil rights era, excavating one of the greatest struggles for social change in this country and restoring African American women and other women of color to its telling. Author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power. Reintegrating the long struggle for women's suffrage into the metanarrative of U.S. history, Dr. Neuman sheds new light on such questions as why it took so long to achieve equal voting rights for women, how victories in state suffrage campaigns pressured Congress to act, why African American women had to fight again for their rights in 1965, and how the struggle by eight generations of female activists finally succeeded.-- taken from book cover

Subjects

• Women > Suffrage
• History
• United States
• Women > Suffrage > United States > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The dawn of republican motherhood -- Female activism in Antebellum America -- From female influence to women's rights -- The Fifteenth Amendment -- The states as incubators for social change -- The coloring of the electorate -- The tactical turn in women's suffrage -- Male suffragists and the limits of self-interest -- Campaigning in wartime -- The long road to ratification -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond.

Call Number

JFE 20-3660

ISBN

• 9781119530831
• 1119530830
• 9781119530855 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781119530794 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019030156
• 40029658103

OCLC

1110122372

Author

Neuman, Johanna, author.

Title

And yet they persisted : how American women won the right to vote / Johanna Neuman.

Publisher

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Neuman, Johanna. And yet they persisted Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. 9781119530855 (DLC) 2019030157

Other Standard Identifier

40029658103

Research Call Number

JFE 20-3660