The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from History of Woman Suffrage, by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association
by Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle (Editor)
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The massive size of the original six-volume History of Woman Suffrage has likely limited its impact on the lives of the women who benefitted from the efforts of the pioneering suffragists. By collecting miscellanies like state suffrage reports and speeches of every sort without interpretation or restraint, the set was often neglected as impenetrable. In their Concise History of Woman Suffrage, Mari Jo Buhle and Paul Buhle have revitalized this classic text by carefully selecting from show more among its best material. The eighty-two chosen documents, now including interpretative introductory material by the editors, give researchers easy access to material that the original work's arrangement often caused readers to ignore or to overlook. The volume contains the work of many reform agitators, among them Angelina Grimké, Lucy Stone, Carrie Chapman Catt, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anna Howard Shaw, Jane Addams, Sojourner Truth, and Victoria Woodhull, as well as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper. show lessTags
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My self-assigned reading for Women's History Month.
This is an anthology of documents produced by various suffragist meetings, such as speeches and resolutions. As such, it gets rather tedious and repetitive. One stand-out speaker is Sojourner Truth with her powerful “Ain't I A Woman?” speech delivered at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. I just never tier of that one...
Still, standing up, this is a monumental effort running basically 1840 to 1920: an eighty year push. This includes two wars. In the Civil War the women are confronted with the strategy of biding their time while black men get the right to vote first, and then in WW I their temperance allies make progress on wedding their goals to enfranchisement.
Two things show more in reflection I had not thought about before:
1) Often it is stated that greater access and authority in church was right up their with political equality. What progress was made in that area?
2) The basic idea of an organization unable to directly access political machinery and using a national movement of conventions and resolutions seemed very effective and could still work today. Are there modern analogues? The process was very public and garnered attention while focusing effort. show less
This is an anthology of documents produced by various suffragist meetings, such as speeches and resolutions. As such, it gets rather tedious and repetitive. One stand-out speaker is Sojourner Truth with her powerful “Ain't I A Woman?” speech delivered at the 1851 Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. I just never tier of that one...
Still, standing up, this is a monumental effort running basically 1840 to 1920: an eighty year push. This includes two wars. In the Civil War the women are confronted with the strategy of biding their time while black men get the right to vote first, and then in WW I their temperance allies make progress on wedding their goals to enfranchisement.
Two things show more in reflection I had not thought about before:
1) Often it is stated that greater access and authority in church was right up their with political equality. What progress was made in that area?
2) The basic idea of an organization unable to directly access political machinery and using a national movement of conventions and resolutions seemed very effective and could still work today. Are there modern analogues? The process was very public and garnered attention while focusing effort. show less
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Paul Buhle is the author or editor of more than three-dozen books. Formerly a senior Lecturer at Brown University, he produces radical comics today. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, show more Wisconsin. Robin D. G. Kelley is Professor of US History at UCLA. His books include Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Time. Lawrence Ware is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University. show less
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