Title Picturing political power : images in the women's suffrage movement / Allison K. Lange

Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents 1. Setting the Standards -- 2. Dominant Images of Gender and Power in Antebellum America -- 3. Portraits as Politics -- 4. A "Fine Looking Body of Women": Female Political Leaders on the Rise -- 5. Competing Visual Campaigns -- 6. White Public Mothers and Militant Suffragists Win the Vote -- Epilogue Summary For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images--whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been flattering, many have been condescending, and others downright incendiary. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural ideas of women's perceived roles and abilities and often have been circulated with pointedly political objectives. Picturing Political Power offers perhaps the most comprehensive analysis yet of the connection between images, gender, and power. In this examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Allison K. Lange explores how suffragists pioneered one of the first extensive visual campaigns in modern American history. She shows how pictures, from early engravings and photographs to colorful posters, proved central to suffragists' efforts to change expectations for women, fighting back against the accepted norms of their times. In seeking to transform notions of womanhood and win the right to vote, white suffragists emphasized the compatibility of voting and motherhood, while Sojourner Truth and other leading suffragists of color employed pictures to secure respect and authority. Picturing Political Power demonstrates the centrality of visual politics to American women's campaigns throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing the power of images to change history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020) Subject Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History First-wave feminism. Graphic arts -- Political aspects -- United States Women in art. Women -- United States -- Portraits Suffragists -- United States -- Portraits Women -- Political activity -- United States HISTORY -- General. First-wave feminism Suffragists Women Women in art Women -- Political activity Women -- Suffrage United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Portraits Form Electronic book ISBN 022670338X 9780226703381

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