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Suffrage at 100, women in American politics since 1920, edited by Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Suffrage at 100

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edited by Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow

women in American politics since 1920

"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"--, Provided by publisher

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

Suffrage at one hundred