Böcker av Ellen Carol DuBois

Harriot Stanton Blatch played a powerful role in the winning of woman suffrage in the USA. This work is both a biography of Harriot Blatch and an appraisal of the winning and aftermath of the American woman suffrage movement.

In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. This book traces the trajectory of the suffrage story against backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and abolitionism, sexuality and religion, and class and politics.

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...