| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 289 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Rhetoric and public affairs series |
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Rhetoric and public affairs series.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Mythologizing the West: Abigail Scott Duniway's Mythic Frontier, 1884 -- 1905 -- ch. 2 Visualizing the West: Suffrage Maps' Imagery of Legitimacy, Civilization, and Continental Expansion, 1907 -- 1917 -- ch. 3 Dismissing the West: Antisuffragists' Wild and Woolly West, 1903 -- 1919 -- ch. 4 Defending the West: Helen Ring Robinson's and Jeannette Rankin's Western Domestication and Boosterism, 1913 -- 1918 -- ch. 5 Embodying the West: The Women Voters' Envoys' Transcontinental Car Travel, 1915 |
| Summary |
"While many scholars have studied why and how the Western states enfranchised women before the Eastern ones, this book instead examines the influence of the West on the US national suffrage movement"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Suffrage -- West (U.S.) -- History
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First-wave feminism.
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Women -- West (U.S.) -- History
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Sex role -- West (U.S.) -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.
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First-wave feminism
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Sex role
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Women
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Women -- Suffrage
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West United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609176570 |
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160917657X |
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9781628954173 |
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1628954175 |
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