Women's Suffrage in New York

Women Will Vote celebrates the 2017 centenary of women's right to full suffrage in New York State. The authors convincingly argue that the agitation and organization that led to New York women's victory in 1917 changed the course of American history.

Explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State. The author finds that conservative women who fought against suffrage encouraged women to retain their distinctive feminine identities as protectors of their homes and families, a role they felt was threatened by the imposition of masculine political responsibilities. She details the victories and defeats on both sides of the movement from its start in the 1890s to its end in the 1930s.

Discusses the historical background, legal cases, and current debate on and impact of voting rights on modern day life. Includes material on the Seneca Falls Convention and contributions from The New York Times and Gloria Steinem.

The Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 was at the beginning of the long struggle for women's rights in the United States. The documents collected in this anthology bring to life the anger and the excitement of a moment when a small but determined group of women dared to challenge the laws and customs of a society dominated by men.

A biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, including chapters on her early years (1815-35); antislavery and women's rights (1835-40); Seneca Falls and Waterloo (1795-1840); Quaker traditions in a changing world; women and legal reform in New York State; The Seneca Falls Convention; and the declaration of women's rights.

A vibrant portrait of a major turning point in American women's history, and in human history, this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to fully understand the origins of the women's rights movement.

The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credits founders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott with defining and then leading the campaign for women's suffrage. As Tetrault shows, while this mythology has narrowed our understanding of the early efforts to champion women's rights, the myth of Seneca Falls itself became an influential factor in the suffrage movement.

An Immersive, educational role-playing game that actively engages students in their own learning, featuring concepts including woman suffrage, socialism, birth control, and anarchism.

Includes a chapter on the arrest and trial of Susan B. Anthony.

This book contains a biographical sketch of Lowell's life, together with a selection of her public papers and private letters, giving evidence of her active and useful work in social service.

Although this work does not focus on suffrage, it explores the culture and leisure activities of working class immigrant women in New York City from 1880-1920, and is therefore a reflection of women's liberation and feminist culture at the time.

By integrating gender analysis and political history, Suffrage Reconstructed offers a new interpretation of the Civil War-era remaking of American democracy, placing African American activists and women's rights advocates at the heart of nineteenth-century American conversations about public policy, civil rights, and the franchise.

A global history of women and the vote that takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present day, revealing startling new connections across time and national boundaries - from Europe and North America to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world post- 9/11.

Volume 2 of this four-volume set focuses on suffrage and women's activism, 1870-1950.

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

This book is a collection of hundreds of firsthand accounts of the women's suffrage movement from diary entries, letters, speeches, and newpaper accounts.

The advocates of woman suffrage and black suffrage came to a bitter falling-out in the midst of Reconstruction, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton opposed the Fifteenth Amendment for granting black men the right to vote but not women. How did these two causes, so long allied, come to this? This book offers answers to this question and reveals that racism was not the only cause, but that the outcome also depended heavily on money and political maneuver.

This volume gathers the author's most influential articles on woman suffrage and includes two new essays, tracing the trajectory of the suffrage story against the backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and abolitionism, sexuality and religion, and class and politics.

Contains a chapter on the Seneca Falls Convention.

Explores the emergence of the suffrage movement in America, 1848-1869.

This comprehensive look at the African American women who fought for the right to vote analyzes the women's own stories and examines why they joined and how they participated in the U.S. women's suffrage movement.

A collection of essays reconceptualizing the political history of black women in the United States. The book explores how slavery, racial discrimination, and gender shaped the goals that African American women set for themselves, their families, and their race and looks at the political tools at their disposal.

The autobiography of Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954), who was active in both the civil rights movement and the campaign for women's suffrage. Terrell was a leading spokesperson for the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, and the first black woman appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education and the American Association of University Women. She was also a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

In Splintered Sisterhood, Marshall argues that the women of the antisuffrage movement mobilized not as threatened homemakers but as influential political strategists. Drawing on surviving records of major antisuffrage organizations, Marshall makes clear that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests.

A digitized copy of Irwin's book about the suffrage movement.

This collection of letters, speeches, essays, and articles highlights tensions within the suffragist movement and demonstrates the changing political atmosphere and role of women in business and politics in the late nineteenth century. It also provides a clear lens through which to view late nineteenth-century suffragism, labor reform, reproductive rights, sexual politics, and spiritualism.

Includes correspondence, writings, and speeches.

Includes a chapter of essays on women's rights and suffrage.

Wyoming became the first American state to adopt female suffrage in 1869--a time when no country permitted women to vote. When the last Swiss canton enfranchised women in 1990, few countries barred women from the polls. Why did pro-suffrage activists in the U.S. and Switzerland have such varying success? Comparing suffrage campaigns in forty-eight American states and twenty-five Swiss cantons, Banaszak argues that movement tactics, beliefs, and values are critical in understanding why political movements succeed or fail.

Includes a chapter about the experiences of jailed suffragettes.

The American women's movement has been shrouded in myths, argue three leading scholars in this bold and revisionist history. Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, this book traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women's history.

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership.

"The history of American women is about the fight for freedom," Collins writes in her introduction, "but it's less a war against oppressive men than a struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed message about women's roles that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders." Told chronologically through the compelling stories of individual lives that, linked together, provide a complete picture of the American woman's experience, America's Women is both a great read and a landmark work of history.

Anna Julia Cooper has emerged as the most important classic writer in the tradition of African American feminist thought. This is the first collection of all of Cooper's major writings, including many never before published. The organization of this important new collection lends itself to a clearer understanding of the major themes and contributions of Cooper's thought, her development as a thinker and writer, and the critiques and controversies surrounding her work. Lemert and Bhan introduce Cooper as an activist, settlement founder, school teacher, college president, linguist, and scholar--a life that paralleled the prodigious accomplishments of W.E.B. Du Bois in so many ways.

William L. O'Neill's lively history of American women's struggle for equality is written with style and a keen sense for the variety of possible interpretations of 150 years of the feminist movement, from its earliest stirring in the 1830's to the latest developments in the 1980s.