| Description |
xxxiii, 468 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Woman suffrage and American reform -- pt. 1. To the Civil War. Prologue ; Antislavery origins ; The convention as agitation ; Temperance and woman's rights ; End of an era -- pt. 2. The Civil War to 1885. Woman's National Loyal League ; Reconstruction alliances ; An independent strategy -- pt. 3. 1885 to 1920. The old and new leadership ; The convention as a platform ; State victories and defeats ; The federal amendment. |
| Summary |
"The massive size of the original six-volume History of Woman Suffrage has likely limited its impact on the lives of the women who benefitted from the efforts of the pioneering suffragists. By collecting miscellanies like state suffrage reports and speeches of every sort without interpretation or restraint, the set was often neglected as impenetrable. In their Concise History of Woman Suffrage, Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle have revitalized this classic text by carefully selecting from among its best material. The eighty-two chosen documents, now including interpretative introductory material by the editors, give researchers easy access to material that the original work's arrangement often caused readers to ignore or to overlook. The volume contains the work of many reform agitators, among them Angelina Grimké, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Sojourner Truth, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper."--P. [4] of cover. |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Buhle, Paul, 1944-
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Buhle, Mari Jo, 1943-
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| Added Title |
Woman suffrage |
| ISBN |
0252072766 (acid-free paper) |
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9780252072765 (acid-free paper) |
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