New York University Press
Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights
Key Metrics
- Ellen Carol DuBois
- New York University Press
- Paperback
- 9780814719015
- 8.19 X 5.61 X 0.87 inches
- 0.87 pounds
- Social Science > Women's Studies
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
An essential examination of the woman suffrage movement
In recent decades, the woman suffrage movement has taken on new significance for women's history. Ellen Carol DuBois has been a central figure in spurring renewed interest in woman suffrage and in realigning the debates which surround it.
This volume gathers DuBois' most influential articles on woman suffrage and includes two new essays. The collection traces the trajectory of the suffrage story against the backdrop of changing attitudes to politics, citizenship and gender, and the resultant tensions over such issues as slavery and abolitionism, sexuality and religion, and class and politics. Connecting the essays is DuBois' belief in the continuing importance of political and reform movements as an object of historical inquiry and a force in shaping gender.
The book, which includes a highly original reconceptualization of women's rights from Mary Wollstonecraft to contemporary abortion and gay rights activists and a historiographical overview of suffrage scholarship, provides an excellent overview of the movement, including international as well as U.S. suffragism, in the context of women's broader concerns for social and political justice.
Author Bio
Ellen Carol DuBois is a Distinguished Research Professor and teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research work is centered on the history of U.S. women with a focus on political history and history of the woman suffrage movement in the United States, and of the history of American feminism. History of international feminism. Transnational history of U.S., 29th century.
In 1975, professor DuBois received her PhD from Northwestern University.
Source: University of California at Los Angeles Social Sciences Division
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