The book is in two parts. Part One covers women’s fight for the right to vote from the beginning. Tracing the roots of the movement to the independent women of seventeenth-century colonial America, Weatherford chronicles, in the seven original chapters, the long, complex—and sometimes tortuous—campaign to secure women's right to vote.
Throughout, Weatherford emphasizes the connections of the women's movement, which rested on profound moral convictions, to the other great nineteenth-century reform movements of abolitionism, temperance, and more, as well as its shortcomings, such as, ironically, racist sentiments and behavior typical of the times. She recounts the inspiring triumphs as well as the heartbreaking setbacks of the movement and tells the human stories behind the political tug and pull that lasted over seven decades.
Part Two highlights the history of women’s fight for greater equality following the 1920 ratification, connecting the suffragist movement across the following century to today’s world. Weatherford covers the time after winning the vote in topical chapters on key subjects still relevant today, including:
Across these chapters, Weatherford traces themes that are core to story of the fight for the vote to later women’s rights struggles. The tug and pull between more radical and centrist strategies and the resistance of women themselves against their own empowerment shaped the women’s movement in the century that followed 1920. For instance, Margaret Sanger’s advocacy for women’s sexual health and birth control in the 1910s, 1920s, and later often alienated less radical feminists. And in perhaps the most well-known example, a fervent antifeminism, led by Phyllis Schlafly, resulted in the ERA’s defeat the late 1970s. By tracing key issues and themes following the suffrage victory, Victory for the Votehighlights the relevance of the long struggle. Weatherford shows that the fight for the vote is not an antique historical artifact, but a living laboratory that offered lessons in the following decades, as well as a handbook for today’s activism.
© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbog): 9781094103839
© 2022 Mango Media (E-bog): 9781642500547
Release date
Lydbog: 19. maj 2020
E-bog: 22. juli 2022
The book is in two parts. Part One covers women’s fight for the right to vote from the beginning. Tracing the roots of the movement to the independent women of seventeenth-century colonial America, Weatherford chronicles, in the seven original chapters, the long, complex—and sometimes tortuous—campaign to secure women's right to vote.
Throughout, Weatherford emphasizes the connections of the women's movement, which rested on profound moral convictions, to the other great nineteenth-century reform movements of abolitionism, temperance, and more, as well as its shortcomings, such as, ironically, racist sentiments and behavior typical of the times. She recounts the inspiring triumphs as well as the heartbreaking setbacks of the movement and tells the human stories behind the political tug and pull that lasted over seven decades.
Part Two highlights the history of women’s fight for greater equality following the 1920 ratification, connecting the suffragist movement across the following century to today’s world. Weatherford covers the time after winning the vote in topical chapters on key subjects still relevant today, including:
Across these chapters, Weatherford traces themes that are core to story of the fight for the vote to later women’s rights struggles. The tug and pull between more radical and centrist strategies and the resistance of women themselves against their own empowerment shaped the women’s movement in the century that followed 1920. For instance, Margaret Sanger’s advocacy for women’s sexual health and birth control in the 1910s, 1920s, and later often alienated less radical feminists. And in perhaps the most well-known example, a fervent antifeminism, led by Phyllis Schlafly, resulted in the ERA’s defeat the late 1970s. By tracing key issues and themes following the suffrage victory, Victory for the Votehighlights the relevance of the long struggle. Weatherford shows that the fight for the vote is not an antique historical artifact, but a living laboratory that offered lessons in the following decades, as well as a handbook for today’s activism.
© 2020 Blackstone Publishing (Lydbog): 9781094103839
© 2022 Mango Media (E-bog): 9781642500547
Release date
Lydbog: 19. maj 2020
E-bog: 22. juli 2022
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