Winning The West For Women

Author : Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801827

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Winning the West for Women by Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal Pdf

In 1856, in an opera house in Roseville, Illinois, Susan B. Anthony called for the supporters of woman suffrage to stand. The only person to rise was eight-year-old Emma Smith. And she continued to take a stand for the rest of her life. As a leader in the suffrage movement, Emma Smith DeVoe stumped across the country organizing for the cause, raising money, and helping make the West central to achieving the vote for women. DeVoe used her feminine style to great advantage in the campaign for the vote. Rather than promoting public rallies, she encouraged women to put their energies toward influencing the votes of their fathers, brothers, and husbands. Known as the still-hunt strategy, this approach was highly successful and helped win the vote for women in Washington State in 1910. Winning the West for Women demonstrates the importance of the West in the national suffrage movement. It reveals the central role played by the National Council of Women Voters, whose members were predominantly western women, in securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Winning the West for Women also tells a larger story of dissension and discord within the suffrage movement. Though ladylike in her courtship of male support for the cause, DeVoe often clashed with other activists who disagreed with her tactics or doubted her commitment to the movement. This fascinating biography describes the real experiences of women and their relationships as they struggled to win the right to vote. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPLnFiZBHug

Author : Mary Ann Irwin,James Brooks
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0826335993

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Women and Gender in the American West by Mary Ann Irwin,James Brooks Pdf

The Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship on gender and women's history in the West. The winning essays are collected here for the first time in one volume.

Author : Cathy Luchetti,Carol Olwell
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 039332155X

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Women of the West by Cathy Luchetti,Carol Olwell Pdf

More than 140 period photographs and excerpts from letters, diaries, books, and journals provide insight into daily life in the American West for women in the nineteenth century. Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Reprint.

Author : Susan Hodge Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806120436

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The Women's West by Susan Hodge Armitage Pdf

A collection of scholarly essays presents a multi-dimensional portrait of western women, challenging the traditional images of frontier women as passive participants in male history by exploring the experiences of Indian women, servants, waitresses, prostitutes, women farmers, and more.

Author : Lillian Schlissel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0060932252

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Western Women by Lillian Schlissel Pdf

Author : Cathy Luchetti
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0517445611

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Women of the West by Cathy Luchetti Pdf

Author : Carol Rust Nash
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766060753

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Women Winning the Right to Vote in United States History by Carol Rust Nash Pdf

The women's suffrage movement was the fight for the right of women to vote. Highlighting the lives and careers of notable suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul, the author traces the movement's roots through its success with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. The author describes the many tactics used to fight for the right to vote for women, as well as the many problems and setbacks faced by the women and men involved in the movement.

Author : Sue Thomas,Clyde Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199363759

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Women and Elective Office by Sue Thomas,Clyde Wilcox Pdf

This edition of Women and Elective Office offers the latest research on women as candidates and officeholders. It provides a comprehensive look at at the history and status of women in elective office, their prospects for the future, and why women in elected office matter to American democracy. It features all-new essays and up-to-the-minute research by leading experts in the field, including the latest political trends and events such as Hillary Rodham Clinton's run for the presidency, women's representation on the state and local level, the diversity of women officeholders' experiences and circumstances, and female judges. Women and Elective Office is an essential guide to understanding the past, present, and future of women in all echelons of government.

Author : Winifred Gallagher
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735223271

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New Women in the Old West by Winifred Gallagher Pdf

A riveting and previously untold history of the American West, as seen by the pioneering women who advocated for their rights amidst challenges of migration and settlement, and transformed the country in the process Between 1840 and 1910, hundreds of thousands of men and women traveled deep into the underdeveloped American West, lured by adventure, opportunity, and the spirit of Manifest Destiny. These settlers soon realized that survival in a new society required women to compromise eastern sensibilities and take on some of their husbands’ responsibilities. At a time when women had very few legal or economic--much less political--rights, these women soon proved just as essential as men to westward expansion. During the mid-nineteenth century, the traditional domestic model of womanhood shifted to include public service, with the women of the West becoming town mothers who established schools, churches, and philanthropies, while also coproviding for their families. They claimed their own homesteads and graduated from new, free coeducational colleges that provided career alternatives to marriage. In 1869, the men of the Wyoming Territory gave women the right to vote--partly to persuade more of them to move west--but with this victory in hand, western suffragists fought relentlessly until the rest of the region followed suit. By 1914 western women became the first American women to vote--a right still denied to women in every eastern state. In New Women in the Old West, Winifred Gallagher brings to life the riveting history of the little-known women--the White, Black, and Asian settlers, and the Native Americans and Hispanics they displaced--who played monumental roles in one of America's most transformative periods. Drawing on an extraordinary collection of research, Gallagher weaves together the striking legacy of the persistent individuals who not only created homes on weather-wracked prairies, but also played a vital, unrecognized role in the women's rights movement and forever redefined the "American woman."

Author : Lillian Schlissel,Vicki Ruíz,Janice J. Monk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0826310907

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Western Women by Lillian Schlissel,Vicki Ruíz,Janice J. Monk Pdf

These essays analyze and interpret studies on women's roles in the American West.

Author : Heidi J. Osselaer
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0816527334

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Winning Their Place by Heidi J. Osselaer Pdf

Recounts the history of women's participation in Arizona politics from 1883 to 1950, including information on the suffrage movement, women's incorporation into political parties, their work in women's clubs; and individual office seekers, obstacles they faced, and their legislation.

Author : Bambra, Clare
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781447330363

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Health divides by Bambra, Clare Pdf

HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE BMA BOOK AWARDS 2017 Americans live three years less than their counterparts in France or Sweden. Scottish men survive two years less than English men. Across Europe, women in the poorest communities live up to ten years less than those in the richest. Revealing gaps in life expectancy of up to 25 years between places just a few miles apart, this important book demonstrates that where you live can kill you. Clare Bambra, a leading expert in public health, draws on case studies from across the globe to examine the social, environmental, economic and political causes of these health inequalities, how they have evolved over time and what they are like today. Bambra concludes by considering how health divides might develop in the future and what should be done, so that where you live is not a matter of life and death. Danny Dorling provides a foreword.

Author : Karen Mulford
Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 0873587839

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Trailblazers by Karen Mulford Pdf

Profiles the lives and achievements of twenty notable women from a variety of racial, religious, professional, and class backgrounds whose actions created new opportunities for American women; arranged chronologically by date of birth from 1805 to 1930.

Author : Victoria Lamont
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803290334

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Westerns by Victoria Lamont Pdf

At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns who were active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when the western genre as we now know it emerged. Victoria Lamont offers detailed studies of some of the many women who helped shape the western. Their novels bear the classic hallmarks of the western—cowboys, schoolmarms, gun violence, lynchings, cattle branding—while also placing female characters at the center of their western adventures and improvising with western conventions in surprising and ingenious ways. In Emma Ghent Curtis’s The Administratrix a widow disguises herself as a cowboy and infiltrates the cowboy gang responsible for lynching her husband. Muriel Newhall’s pulp serial character, Sheriff Minnie, comes to the rescue of a steady stream of defenseless female victims. B. M. Bower, Katharine Newlin Burt, and Frances McElrath use cattle branding as a metaphor for their feminist critiques of patriarchy. In addition to recovering the work of these and other women authors of popular westerns, Lamont uses original archival analysis of the western-fiction publishing scene to overturn the long-standing myth of the western as a male-dominated genre.

Author : Joan Dee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1403303312

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Women Won the West, Also by Joan Dee Pdf