New Women of the New South The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States

Name: New Women of the New South The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States
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ISBN: 9780195082456

ISBN-10: 0195082451

ISBN-13: 9780195082456

Edition: 1993

Authors: Marjorie Spruill Wheeler

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There is currently a great deal of interest in the Southern suffrage movement, but until now historians have had no comprehensive history of the woman suffrage movement in the South, the region where suffragists had the hardest fight and the least success. This important new book focuses on eleven of the movement's most prominent leaders at the regional and national levels, exploring the range of opinions within this group, with particular emphasis on race and states' rights. Wheeler insists that the suffragists were motivated primarily by the desire to secure public affirmation of female equality and to protect the interests of women, children, and the poor in the tradition of noblesse…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034



Introduction



The Southern Lady: Hostage to "the Lost Cause"



The Making of Southern Suffragists



Respectable Radicals: Southern Suffragists as Champions of Women's Rights



Southern Suffragists and "the Negro Problem"



Women's Rights and States' Rights: Dissension in "the Solid South"



Bitter Fruit: An Incomplete Victory, Courtesy of Uncle Sam


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index