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The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport, 2019
:This essay places modern theories of universal suffrage in dialogue with instruments designed to make the voice of the people sensible: colored ballots, daguerreotypes, automatic voting booths. It does so to argue that the expanding franchise across the
Kevin Duong
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:This essay places modern theories of universal suffrage in dialogue with instruments designed to make the voice of the people sensible: colored ballots, daguerreotypes, automatic voting booths. It does so to argue that the expanding franchise across the
Kevin Duong
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Mapping Social Movements and Leveraging the U.S. West: The Rhetoric of the Woman Suffrage Map
Women's Studies in Communication, 2019This case study of the U.S. woman suffrage map in the early twentieth century reveals the political map as an advocacy tool for social movements. By analyzing the suffrage map and its reception, I argue that the suffrage map projected the movement’s ...
Tiffany Lewis
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Universal Suffrage: The Century of Corrupting Incentives?
New Perspectives on Political Economy, 2018Conflict of interest of welfare dependent voter creates wrong incentives. These incentives inherent to universal suffrage, yield consequences, as predicted by John Adams back in the 18-th century.
K. Yanovskiy, S. Zhavoronkov
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Reexamining Women’s Nineteenth-Century Political Agency: School Suffrage and Office-Holding
Journal of Policy History, 2018: Recognizing public education as a public good, policymakers have focused on providing those with direct interest in public schools opportunities to influence educational policy making.
K. Nicholas
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The use of irony as a subversive element in suffrage theatre
Suffrage and Women’s Writing, 2018This article seeks to explore how the use of comic irony in suffrage plays might be understood as a subversive element. Pro-suffrage playwrights wrote their propaganda plays in such a way as to ensure that they were funny, mocking and entertaining ...
Verónica Pacheco Costa
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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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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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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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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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