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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969813503321

Autore

Adams Katherine H. <1954->

Titolo

Alice Paul and the American suffrage campaign / / Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2008

ISBN

9786612941634

9781282941632

1282941631

9780252090349

0252090349

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KeeneMichael L

Disciplina

324.6/23092

B

Soggetti

Suffragists - United States

Women - Suffrage - United States - History

Women's rights - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-264) and index.

Nota di contenuto

front cover -- title page -- copyright -- table of contents -- intro -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 -- chapter 7 -- chapter 8 -- chapter 9 -- conclusion -- bibliography -- index -- back cover.

Sommario/riassunto

Past biographies, histories, and government documents have ignored Alice Paul's contribution to the women's suffrage movement, but this groundbreaking study scrupulously fills the gap in the historical record. Masterfully framed by an analysis of Paul's nonviolent and visual rhetorical strategies, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign narrates the remarkable story of the first person to picket the White House, the first to attempt a national political boycott, the first to burn the president in effigy, and the first to lead a successful campaign of nonviolence.   Katherine H. Adams and Michael L. Keene also chronicle other dramatic techniques that Paul deftly used to gain publicity for the suffrage movement. Stunningly woven into the narrative are accounts of many instances in which women were in physical danger. Rather



than avoid discussion of Paul's imprisonment, hunger strikes, and forced feeding, the authors divulge the strategies she employed in her campaign. Paul's controversial approach, the authors assert, was essential in changing American attitudes toward suffrage.