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Suffrage Outside Suffragism

2007
This collection of essays systematically explores how a sample of political groupings not founded on suffrage reacted and accommodated the issue of suffrage within their official discourses and structures. The volume leads to the heart and core of suffragism while examining the dynamics and versatilities of the Edwardian political fabric.
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After Suffrage:

2020
After gaining the vote in 1920, suffragists faced a new quandary—to attempt to enter the existing male power structure or focus on the broader cause of advancing women by upholding traditional femininity while still exercising the ballot. Efforts to deal with this dilemma can be seen by examining the contents of contemporary periodicals, particularly ...
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Suffrage

2020
Abstract This chapter focuses on Article III of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns suffrage. Section 1 provides that “all citizens of the United States, over the age of eighteen (18) years, who are bona fide residents of this state, are qualified electors of this state.” Added in 1978, Section 2 provides for the creation and ...
Danny M. Adkison, Lisa McNair Palmer
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Suffrage

2019
Four generations of women fought for the right to vote. This book shows how their grand reform effort overcame resistance from traditionalists fearing social decay, religious leaders citing scriptural prohibitions, and a stodgy political establishment reluctant to share power.
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Celebrate Suffrage

Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2020
2020 marks 100 years of women’s suffrage in the U.S. Considering this anniversary and the Christian presumption in favor of democracy, this essay invites readers to honor all those who worked for women’s suffrage in two specific ways. First, it invites them to tell the whole truth about the movement, both its many moments of grace and its moral ...
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Women’s Suffrage

2020
This is the "everything" women's suffrage and Nineteenth Amendment book, coming just as the country celebrates the centenary of the constitutional amendment that finally brought the vote to all American women. Women’s Suffrage: The Complete Guide to the Nineteenth Amendment tells the dramatic story of American women’s long fight for the vote ...
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Suffrage

2023
Krunke, Helle, Klinge, Sune
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“Political Slaves”: Suffrage, Anti-suffrage, and Tyranny

2019
Across the antebellum era, some women’s rights reformers began to embrace the woman-slave analogy in an increasingly literal manner. In the context of the debates about citizenship and universal suffrage during the 1860s, this chapter examines the process whereby suffragists continued to reconfigure what it meant to be a disenfranchised “slave” after ...
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Suffragism beyond Suffrage

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 2020
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