The weight of their votes: southern women and political leverage in the 1920s
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1. Verfasser: Schuyler, Lorraine Gates (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2006
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index
Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In 'The Weight of Their Votes', Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive. Schuyler challenges popular scholarly opinion that women failed to wield their ballots effectively in the 1920s, arguing instead that in state and local politics, women made the most of their votes
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 336 pages)
ISBN:0807876690
1469606224
9780807876695
9781469606224

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