Women's Suffrage
A Research Guide to Materials in the Library
Ford, Linda G. Iron-Jawed Angels: The Suffrage Militancy of the National
Woman's Party, 1912-1920. Call number JK 1896 .F67 1991. An exciting
study of the more radical movements for suffrage. "If men will not give
women rights--they will take them" (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1913).
Giele, Janet Zollinger. Two Paths to Women's Equality: Temperance,
Suffrage, and the Origins of Modern Feminism. Call number HQ 1410 .G54
1995. "In this first book to assess the combined influence of temperance
and suffrage on woman's evolving role in American society, sociologist
Janet Giele argues that the two movements together accomplished much more
than either could have done alone."
Davis, Paulina W. (compiler). A History of the National Woman's Rights
Movement, for Twenty Years, With the Proceedings of the Decade Meeting Held
at Apollo Hall, October 20, 1870.. Call number JK 1896 .D3 1971. This
is a reprint of some fascinating documents from early Women's rights
activists.
Lumsden, Linda J. Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly.
Call number JK 1896 .L86 1997. "..offers an in-depth look at the intersection
between the woman suffrage movement and the constitutional right to assemble
peaceably... shows how the suffragists' new tactics forged solidarity
among women and legitimized the movement. When they spoke, marched, and
picketed, suffragists not only challenged legal restrictions regarding public
assemblies, they defied traditional ideas about how women should behave."
C.Glass, 2/2002
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