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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont [[electronic resource] ] : unlikely champion of women's rights / / Sylvia D. Hoffert



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Autore: Hoffert Sylvia D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont [[electronic resource] ] : unlikely champion of women's rights / / Sylvia D. Hoffert Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
Disciplina: 305.42092
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Soggetto topico: Feminists - United States
Suffragists - United States
Women political activists - United States
Women - Suffrage - United States - History - 20th century
Women's rights - United States - History - 20th century
Socialites - New York (State) - New York
Rich people - New York (State) - New York
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: An Impossible Child -- Every Inch a General -- A Sex Battle -- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose -- Belmont's Orphan Child -- The Last Word -- Postscript: My Turn -- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights.
Sommario/riassunto: A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign. Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and
Titolo autorizzato: Alva Vanderbilt Belmont  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-12439-3
9786613528254
0-253-00560-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788253903321
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