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Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
Susan E. Marshall
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Hardcover. Drawing on surviving records of antisuffrage organizations, the author argues that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests rather than an ideal of "true womanhood". The book reveals an increasingly militant style as powerful women sought to exclude "the ignorant vote". Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JPHF; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 662.
When Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920, giving women the right to vote, one group of women expressed bitter disappointment and vowed to fight against ""this feminist disease"". Why this fierce and extended opposition? In ""Splintered Sisterhood"", Susan Marshall argues that the women of the antisuffrage movement mobilized not as threatened homemakers, but as influential political strategists. Drawing on surviving records of major antisuffrage organizations, Marshall makes clear that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests. She shows that many of the most vocal antisuffragists were wealthy, educated women ... Read more
When Tennessee became the 36th and final state needed to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920, giving women the right to vote, one group of women expressed bitter disappointment and vowed to fight against ""this feminist disease"". Why this fierce and extended opposition? In ""Splintered Sisterhood"", Susan Marshall argues that the women of the antisuffrage movement mobilized not as threatened homemakers, but as influential political strategists. Drawing on surviving records of major antisuffrage organizations, Marshall makes clear that antisuffrage women organized to protect gendered class interests. She shows that many of the most vocal antisuffragists were wealthy, educated women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299154608
SKU
V9780299154608
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