Ellen Carol DuBois is Distinguished Research Professor in the History Department of UCLA. She is the author of numerous books on the history of woman suffrage in the US. She is the coauthor, with Lynn Dumenil, of the leading textbook in US women’s history, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents and coeditor, with Vicki Ruiz, of Unequal Sisters: In Inclusive Reader in US Women’s History.
“Ellen DuBois tells us the long drama of women’s fight for the
vote, without privileging polite lobbying over radical
disobedience—or vice versa. In so doing, she gives us the gift of a
full range of tactics now, and also
the understanding that failing to vote is a betrayal of
our foremothers and ourselves.”
*Gloria Steinem*
“This is a great American story, beautifully told. Ellen
DuBois enables us to appreciate the drama of the long battle for
women's suffrage and the heroism of many of its advocates, as well
as the movement's imperfections. At a time when many of
our constitutional rights are under assault, this is an especially
relevant piece of our national history.”
*Eric Foner, author of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and
Reconstruction Remade the Constitution*
"Compelling. . . . The complex circumstances of the suffrage
fight are difficult to disentangle and judge fairly; DuBois, an
academic trailblazer in women’s history, brings vast knowledge and
insight to the task. This accessible new volume provides an
indispensable resource as we celebrate the women’s suffrage
centennial."
*Ms. Magazine*
“This book is a treasure! A wealth of material is gathered here on
behalf of the stirring, seventy year struggle for the political
enfranchisement of American women. Others have written about it
before, but none as thrillingly, as freshly, and as
comprehensively as does Ellen Dubois in this book. Suffrage
deserves a permanent place on the ever-growing shelf of
distinguished feminist history."
*Vivian Gornick*
“The complex circumstances of the suffrage fight are difficult to
disentangle and judge fairly; DuBois, an academic trailblazer in
women’s history, brings vast knowledge and insight to the task.
This accessible new volume provides an indispensable resource as we
celebrate the women’s suffrage centennial.”
*Ms. Magazine*
"Ellen Carol DuBois has written a comprehensive history that deftly
tackles intricate political complexities and conflicts and still
somehow reads with nail-biting suspense."
*The Guardian*
"Suffrage takes us along the troubled road to votes for women,
guided by Ellen DuBois, one of the best historians of the movement.
Getting to a woman's suffrage amendment in 1920 was no straight
path, and DuBois courageously wades into the fraught politics of
pro- and anti-suffrage, chronicles moments of hope and despair, and
turns deep research into a page-turner of a saga. This is no simple
story about heroes—DuBois is honest about how racism limited the
movement's scope and its influence. Still, the women of Suffrage
teach essential lessons for our own time about how vision,
vigilance, and risk-taking have always been the life-blood of the
nation's best ideals. Their work of ensuring women's equality,
DuBois makes plain, is not yet done."
*Martha S. Jones, author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman
Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900.*
“Suffrage reads like an exciting novel. Ellen DuBois presents her
well-researched history of women’s long battle for the vote through
superb story-telling, in which the major personalities in the
struggle to enfranchise women come alive in all their complexity.
Though we know the story will end in the victory of the 19th
Amendment, Suffrage is a page-turner.”
*Lillian Faderman, author of Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers and The
Gay Revolution*
“[DuBois] delivers colorful portraits of the many heroines of
American suffrage. . . . Comprehensive and thoroughly sourced.”
*The Columbus Dispatch*
“Comprehensive and well-paced. . . . DuBois rightly focuses on the
colorful personalities that defined the distinct eras of
suffragism, and effectively marshals a wealth of source material.
This thorough, evenhanded presentation offers valuable lessons for
readers interested in women’s rights and the history of progressive
activism in America.”
*Publishers Weekly*
"DuBois meticulously and vibrantly chronicles every phase of this
arduous, complicated, cross-country battle. . . . [She] breaks
through the dull casings that have calcified around the best-known
suffragists, including Susan B. Anthony, and brings them forward as
complex and compelling individuals."
*Booklist*
"What is most provocative about this book, however, is how
contemporary it feels. It’s shocking to read about women being
arrested merely for picketing, or attacked while marching
peacefully down Pennsylvania Avenue — but maybe not that
shocking."
*The Providence Journal*
"Timely and thorough, Dubois’ book analyzes the suffrage movement
with passion and perspective, inspired by fervor for freedom."
*Richmond Times-Dispatch*
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