Ellen Carol DuBois is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her most recent books are Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights and Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage.
The women's suffrage movement is commonly viewed in one of two
ways: as completely synonymous with nineteenth-century feminism, or
as a corruption, a dilution of it. DuBois shows that neither
analysis is accurate but that both political paths converged into a
social movement that affected American history at least as much as
the black liberation and labor movements—whose support it failed to
win.... DuBois has given us a work of scholarly insight written in
an animated style; she is generous in her portraits of and quotes
from the foremothers. For feminists today, this book is a critical
reminder that alliances are best made from a position of
independently acquired strength.
*Ms. Magazine*
This thoughtful and highly readable analysis is a valuable
contribution to both the history of feminism and the history of
nineteenth-century America.
*Kirkus Reviews*
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