Feminism and Sufferage

by Dubois, Ellen Carol

• ISBN13: 9780801486418
• ISBN10: 0801486416
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781501711817
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new edition, Ellen Carol DuBois addresses the changing context for the history of woman suffrage at the millennium.

Author Biography

Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. 6
Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 11
Introduction	p. 15
Women's Rights before the Civil War	p. 21
The Fourteenth Amendment and the American Equal Rights Association	p. 53
The Kansas Campaign of 1867	p. 79
The Search for Allies: The Democratic Party and the National Labor Union	p. 105
The Search for a Constituency: The Working Women's Association	p. 126
The Fifteenth Amendment and the Emergence of Independent Suffragism	p. 162
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 215
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