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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453249903321

Autore

McConnaughy Corrine M.

Titolo

The woman suffrage movement in America : a reassessment / / Corrine M. McConnaughy, the Ohio State University, Columbus [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-42395-3

1-107-42182-9

1-107-56705-X

1-107-41916-6

1-107-41644-2

1-107-42040-7

1-139-00510-3

1-107-41783-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

324.6/230973

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : On states and suffrage -- Bringing politics back in : suffrage supply and demand -- Political meaning for woman suffrage -- Programmatic enfranchisement : coalitional strategies for voting rights -- Strong leverage : third-party support -- Coalitional impossibilites : race, class, and failure -- The national story -- From the outside in -- Appendix : Additional notes on measures and analyses.

Sommario/riassunto

This book departs from familiar accounts of high-profile woman suffrage activists whose main concern was a federal constitutional amendment. It tells the story of woman suffrage as one involving the diverse politics of women across the country as well as the incentives of the men with the primary political authority to grant new voting rights - those in state legislatures. Through a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book explains the success and failures of efforts for woman suffrage provisions in five states and in the US



Congress as the result of successful and failed coalitional politics between the suffrage movement and important constituencies of existing male voters, including farmers' organizations, labor unions, and the Populist and Progressive parties.