Women's Suffrage in New York

Explores the three waves of feminism through the lives of the women who made history in bringing women's issues to the forefront of American society.

Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, this book tells the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence.

This biography of Paul's early years and suffrage leadership offers fresh insight into her private persona and public image, examining for the first time the sources of her ambition and the growth of her political consciousness.

Stanton’s intellectual contributions have been largely overshadowed by the focus on her political activities, and she is yet to be recognized as one of the major thinkers of the nineteenth century. Here, at long last, is a single volume exploring and presenting Stanton’s thoughtful, original, lifelong inquiries into the nature, origins, range, and solutions of women’s subordination.

A New York socialite and feminist, Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, administrative expertise, and social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign.

This scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood.

An encyclopedia of America's political women: leaders, causes, and issues.

An account of the feminist movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries focusing on Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

A biography of the 19th century reformer, abolitionist, and feminist who fought for equality for women, blacks, Indians, immigrants, and the poor.

This book challenges all previous interpretations of Lowell as a "genteel" reformer mostly interested in social control of the underclass. Rather, her aim was to cure pauperism, and her strategies eventually led her to support higher wages and full employment