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Trisha Franzen - Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage - 9780252038150 - V9780252038150
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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage

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Description for Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage Hardback. With the biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), this book focuses on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. It shows how circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 11 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 635.

With this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood.

An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the adoption of non-traditional gender roles. Challenging traditional gender boundaries throughout her life, she put herself through college, worked as an ordained minister and a doctor, and built a tightly-knit family with her secretary and longtime companion Lucy E. Anthony.

Drawing on unprecedented research, Franzen shows how these circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman ... Read more

Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage presents a clear and compelling portrait of a woman whose significance has too long been misinterpreted and misunderstood. 


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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Condition
New
Series
Women in American History
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252038150
SKU
V9780252038150
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Trisha Franzen
Trisha Franzen is a professor of women's and gender studies at Albion College and the author of Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States.

Reviews for Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014. "A thoughtful addition to our understanding of an important figure in the suffrage movement. It will do what its author intends: force all students of women's history to reevaluate Anna Howard Shaw as well as the clichéd doldrums of the movement."
American Historical Review "While this is a scholarly work of remarkable academic ... Read more

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