Table of Contents

Introduction
Jean H. Baker

1. The Case for Reform Antecedents for the Woman's Rights Movement
Alison M. Parker

2. Voices of Suffrage: Sojourner Truth, Frances Watkins Harper, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage
Nell Irvin Painter

3. New York Strategy: The New York Woman's Movement and the Civil War
Faye Dudden

4. Woman Suffrage in Congress: American Expansion and the Politics of Federalism, 1870-1890
Allison Sneider

5. Pioneers at the Polls: Woman Suffrage in the West
Rebecca Edwards

6. Race, Reform, and Reaction at the Turn of the Century: Southern Suffragists, the NAWSA, and the "Southern Strategy" in Context
Marjorie Julian Spruill

7. Female Opposition: The Anti-Suffrage Campaign
Thomas Jablonsky

8. Carrie Chapman Catt and the Last Years of the Struggle for Woman Suffrage: "The Winning Plan"
Robert Booth Fowler and Spencer Jones

9. America and the Pankhursts
Christine Bolt

10. The Next Generation: Harriot Stanton Blatch and Grassroots Politics
Ellen Carol DuBois

11. Alice Paul and the Politics of Nonviolent Protest
Linda Ford

Epilogue
Anne Firor Scott

Bibliography

About the Author

Jean H. Baker is Professor of History at Goucher College. She is the author of Mary Todd Lincoln: A Biography and The Stevensons: Biography of an American Family, among other books.

Reviews

"Finely researched, developed, and argued essays...offering a better understanding of the complexity of American politics and society during the mid-19th and early-20th centuries."--CHOICE