The Woman Suffrage Movement in America

A Reassessment

Corrine M. McConnaughy

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781107013667
• eBook ISBN: 9781107439207
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: American Government
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book departs from familiar accounts of high-profile woman suffrage activists whose main concern was a federal constitutional amendment. It tells the story of woman suffrage as one involving the diverse politics of women across the country as well as the incentives of the men with the primary political authority to grant new voting rights - those in state legislatures. Through a mix of qualitative and quantitative evidence, the book explains the success and failures of efforts for woman suffrage provisions in five states and in the US Congress as the result of successful and failed coalitional politics between the suffrage movement and important constituencies of existing male voters, including farmers' organizations, labor unions, and the Populist and Progressive parties.

Table of contents

• Cover page
• Half title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Bringing Politics Back In
• 2 Political Meaning for Woman Suffrage
• 3 Programmatic Enfranchisement
• 4 Strong Leverage
• 5 Coalitional Impossibilities
• 6 The National Story
• 7 From the Outside In
• Appendix: Additional Notes on Measures and Analyses
• Index
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