LEADER 05266nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910969466103321 005 20251117091159.0 010 $a1-60344-679-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050884 035 $a(OCoLC)759158572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492839 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565921 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345675 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565921 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10533725 035 $a(PQKB)10588893 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3038029 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14814 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3038029 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492839 035 $a(PPN)25711775X 035 $a(BIP)34658947 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050884 100 $a20110203d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMilitant citizenship $erhetorical strategies of the National Woman's Party, 1913-1920 /$fBelinda A. Stillion Southard 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 225 1 $aPresidential rhetoric series ;$vno. 21 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-60344-281-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWomen, citizenship, and US nationalism -- Mimesis and political ritual : the National Woman Suffrage Parade -- Mimesis and third-party politics : the Woman's Party -- Mimesis and the rhetorical presidency: the Silent Sentinels -- Mimesis and US internationalism : statue protests and the "Watch Fires of Freedom." 330 $aBetween 1913 and 1920, the National Woman's Party (NWP) waged a campaign to write women's voting rights into the U.S. Constitution. Unlike the more moderate campaign strategies adopted by other woman suffrage organizations of the Progressive Era, the NWP remained committed to militant agitation--that is, holding political party leaders responsible for social change and doing so through nontraditional means of protest. Some of these militant strategies included heckling President Wilson, protesting silently outside the White House gates, and publicly burning his speeches in "Watch Fires." Such militancy resulted in institutional acts of social control including censorship, arrests, beatings, and force-feedings. And yet, by the end of the woman suffrage movement, the NWP had earned the endorsements of every major political party, as well as of prominent politicians (including Wilson), and had found its name splashed across the front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. One Times article even referred to the NWP as the "suffrage leaders." Exploring the ways in which the militant NWP negotiated institutional opposition and secured such a prominent position in national politics drives the analysis offered in this manuscript. In light of the NWP's militant identity and its demonstrated political viability, Belinda A. Stillion Southard treats the party's campaign for woman suffrage as an example of how a relatively powerless group of women constituted themselves as "national citizens" through rhetoric. To this end, she uses volumes of NWP discourse, including correspondence, photographs, protests, and publications, to situate the NWP in the historical and ideological forces of the period, particularly as they are inflected by meanings of nationalism, citizenship, and social activism. In addition to this project's historical focus, this study features the critical concept of political mimesis to help explain the ways in which the NWP mimicked political rhetorics and rituals to simultaneously agitate and accommodate members of the political elite. Taking root in Aristotle's notion of mimesis as the process of representation and drawing upon more postmodern theories that link mimesis to identity-formation, this study demonstrates that the NWP's mimetic strategies took multiple forms, including parody and appropriation. Through the rhetoric of political mimesis, the NWP militantly inserted itself into U.S. politics while it also earned the political legitimacy needed to assert women's citizenship rights. Ultimately, the strength of political mimesis as a strategy of social change was demonstrated by the ways in which the NWP's rhetoric circulated within national and international political discourse and solicited a response from political leaders, the U.S. news media, and NWP supporters. 410 0$aPresidential rhetoric series ;$vno. 21. 606 $aWomen$xSuffrage$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical leadership$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$vCase studies 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1913-1921 615 0$aWomen$xSuffrage$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical leadership$xHistory 615 0$aRhetoric$xPolitical aspects 676 $a324.2732 700 $aStillion Southard$b Belinda A.$f1978-$01870509 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910969466103321 996 $aMilitant citizenship$94478990 997 $aUNINA