Selling Suffrage Consumer Culture and Votes for Women

Name: Selling Suffrage Consumer Culture and Votes for Women
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ISBN: 9780231107396

ISBN-10: 0231107390

ISBN-13: 9780231107396

Edition: 1999

Authors: Margaret Finnegan

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Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of consumer culture--but the cost of this alliance was a concession of possibilities for social reform. When manufacturers and department stores made consumption central to middle-class…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/11/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Margaret Finnegan received a Ph.D. in history from UCLA. She has taught at various universities, and lives and writes in Los Angeles.



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


Introduction



Consumer Culture and Woman Suffrage Ideology



"So Much Color and Dash": Woman Suffragists, Public Space, and Commercial Culture



On Stage: Personality, the Performing Self, and the Represention of Woman Suffragists



From Sunflower Badges to Kewpie Dolls: Woman Suffrage Commodities and the Embrace of Consumer Capitalism



Selling Suffrage News: Consumerism and The Woman's Journal



Ringing in a New Day


Notes


Index