No Votes for Women

The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement

Susan Goodier

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780252078989
  9780252037474
• eBook ISBN:
  9780252094675
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women. Susan Goodier finds that conservative women who fought against suffrage encouraged women to retain their distinctive feminine identities as protectors of their homes and families, a role they felt was threatened by the imposition of masculine political responsibilities. She details the victories and defeats on both sides of the movement from its start in the 1890s to its end in the 1930s, acknowledging the powerful activism of this often overlooked and misunderstood political force in the history of women's equality.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Anti-Suffragists at the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention
• 2. Establishing New York State Anti-Suffrage Organizations, 1895–1911
• 3. Antis Win the New York State Campaign, 1912–1915
• 4. Suffragists Win the New York State Campaign, 1915–1917
• 5. Using Enfranchisement to Fight Woman Suffrage, 1917–1932
• 6. Antis Adjust to Enfranchisement, 1917–1932 142 Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index