Votes for College Women (eBook)

Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign

Kelly L. Marino (Autor)

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2024
316 Seiten
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-2521-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Explores the College Equal Suffrage League's work to advance the campaign for the Nineteenth AmendmentThe woman suffrage movement is often portrayed as having been led and organized by middle-aged women and mothers in stuffy, formal settings. This dominant account grossly neglects a significant demographic within the movement college women. Between 1870 and 1910, the proportion of college women in the United States rose from 21 to 40 percent. By 1880, there were 155 private colleges in the Northeast and the South for female students and numerous coeducational institutions in the West. The widespread extension of academic training for women helped spur a well-organized campaign for female voting rights on college campuses, where suffragists found a new audience and stage to earn respect and support.Votes for College Women examines archives from the College Equal Suffrage League (CESL), established in 1900 as an affiliate of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to illustrate the outsize and dynamic role that young women played in the woman suffrage movement. The book vividly illustrates how the CESL s campaigns served a dual purpose: not only did they invigorate the Nineteenth Amendment campaign at a crucial moment, but they also brought about a profound transformation in the culture of women s organizing and higher education. Furthermore, Kelly L. Marino argues that the CESL s campaigns set trends in youth activism and helped lay the groundwork for later and more well-known college protests against gender inequality. Fascinating and timely, Votes for College Women shows how these brave women solidified the campus and the classroom as arenas for civic and social activism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 16 b/w images
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 19th amendment • Annie Nathan Meyer • books about feminist history • books about Women's Suffrage • Boston suffrage • College Equal Suffrage League • Elsie Hill • Equal Rights Amendment • feminist history • League of Women Voters • Maud Wood Park • M. Carey Thomas • National American Woman Suffrage Association • National Association of Colored Girls • National Association of Colored Women • National League for the Civic Education of Women • National Woman’s Party • New Orleans suffrage • New York suffrage • nineteenth amendment • San Francisco suffrage • Student activism • suffrage and college • suffrage and higher education • suffrage and universities • woman suffrage • Women’s History and suffrage • women's suffrage
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-2521-2 / 1479825212
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-2521-9 / 9781479825219