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The women's suffrage movement

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"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 s…

Votes for women!: a portrait of persistence

by Jones, Martha S., Lemay, Kate Clarke, Goodier, Susan, Tetrault, Lisa

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"Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women celebrates past efforts while looking toward what actions we might take in the future to further support women's equality"--Introduction.

Christabel Pankhurst: a biography

by Purvis, June

fromWomen's and gender history

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Together with her mother, Emmeline, Christabel Pankhurst co-led the single-sex Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded in 1903 and soon regarded as the most notorious of the groupings campaigning for the parliamentary vote for women. A First Class Honours Graduate in …

Suffrage and the arts: visual culture, politics and enterprise

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'Suffrage and the arts' is an illuminating account of women as artists, designers, makers and consumers of visual culture, throughout the campaign for female suffrage in Britain, from 1880 to the 1930s, when universal suffrage was finally granted. Published to coincide with the …

Suffrage and the arts: visual culture, politics and enterprise

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Suffrage and the arts' is an illuminating account of women as artists, designers, makers and consumers of visual culture, throughout the campaign for female suffrage in Britain, from 1880 to the 1930s, when universal suffrage was finally granted.0Published to coincide with the c…

Rise up, women!: the remarkable lives of the suffragettes

by Atkinson, Diane

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"Between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War, while the patriarchs of the Liberal and Tory parties vied for supremacy in parliament, the campaign for women's suffrage was fought with great flair and imagination in the public arena. Led by Emmeline…

Rise up, women!: the remarkable lives of the suffragettes

by Atkinson, Diane

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"Between the death of Queen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War, while the patriarchs of the Liberal and Tory parties vied for supremacy in parliament, the campaign for women's suffrage was fought with great flair and imagination in the public arena. Led by Emmeline…

Gilded suffragists: the New York socialites who fought for women's ri…

by Neuman, Johanna

fromWashington mews books

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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and …

Gilded suffragists: the New York socialites who fought for women's ri…

by Neuman, Johanna

fromWashington Mews book

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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and …

Literature of the women's suffrage campaign in England

by Nelson, Carolyn Christensen

fromdesLibris

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"This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women's suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been rep…

Literature of the women's suffrage campaign in England

by Nelson, Carolyn Christensen

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"This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women's suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been rep…

Minnie Fisher Cunningham: a suffragist's life in politics

by McArthur, Judith N., Smith, Harold L.

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"The principal orchestrator of the passage of women's suffrage in Texas, a founder and national officer of the League of Women Voters, the first woman to run for a U.S. Senate seat from Texas, and a candidate for that state's governorship, Minnie Fisher Cunningham was one of the…