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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974772703321

Autore

Mead Rebecca J

Titolo

How the vote was won : woman suffrage in the western United States, 1868-1914 / / Rebecca J. Mead

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2004

ISBN

9780814759912

0814759912

9780814761175

0814761178

9781417568727

1417568720

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

324.623

324.6230978

Soggetti

Women - Suffrage - West (U.S.) - History

Women's rights

History

Electronic books.

West United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

IndexAbout the Author.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-262) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1. Superrats: The New Breed of Sexual Individualists; 2. Portrait of a Generation: Male and Female Sex Patterns Converge; 3. Changing Sexual Scripts: A Close-Up; 4. Virginity Reimagined: No Sex and the Single Girl; 5. Modern Marriage: From Meal Ticket to Best Friend; 6. Choices for Remaining Single: "She's Gonna Make It after All"; 7. Lesbians and Bisexuals Out and Proud: "The Groping Generation"; 8. Education and Jobs, the Sexual Revolution, and the Women's Movement: The Foundation; Notes; Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

By the end of 1914, almost every Western state and territory had enfranchised its female citizens in the greatest innovation in participatory democracy since Reconstruction. These Western successes



stand in profound contrast to the East, where few women voted until after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, and the South, where African-American men were systematically disenfranchised. How did the frontier West leap ahead of the rest of the nation in the enfranchisement of the majority of its citizens? In this provocative new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that Western suffrage.