No Vote for Women: The Denial of Suffrage in Reconstruction America (Cahill Bernadette)(Paperback)

No Vote for Women: The Denial of Suffrage in Reconstruction America (Cahill Bernadette)(Paperback)

From 1865, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led campaigns for equal rights for all but were ultimately defeated by a Congress and reformers intent on applying suffrage established with constitutional amendments and legislation to men only. Ignoring all women, black and white, advocates

Votes for Women!: The Pioneers and Heroines of Female Suffrage (from the Pages of a History of Britain in 21 Women) (Murray Jenni)(Pevná vazba)

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment. They fought for the vote. They pushed back boundaries and revolutionised our world. For the hundredth anniversary of the historic moment the

To Be Equals in Our Own Country: Women and the Vote in Quebec (Baillargeon Denyse)(Paperback)

'When the history of suffrage is written, the role played by our politicians will cut a sad figure beside that of the women they insulted.' Speaking in 1935, feminist Idola Saint-Jean captured the bitter nature of Quebec women's fight for enfranchisement--which they had to wage until 1940--as

A Vote for Women: Celebrating the Women's Suffrage Movement and the 19th Amendment (St James's House)(Pevná vazba)

August 2020 marked the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which guaranteed and protected women's constitutional right to vote across the United States.A Vote for Women is a joint venture between the Women's Vote Centennial Initiative (WVCI)--an

Women and the Vote: A World History (Adams Jad)(Paperback)

Before 1893 no woman anywhere in the world had the vote in a national election. A hundred years later almost all countries had enfranchised women, and it was a sign of backwardness not to have done so. This is the story of how this momentous change came about. The first genuinely global history of

Imagine You Were There... Winning the Vote for Women (Jenner Caryn)(Paperback / softback)

Learn how the women's suffrage movement changed the world and about the people who made it

American Women's Suffrage: Voices from the Long Struggle for the Vote 1776-1965 (Loa #332) (Ware Susan)(Pevná vazba)

In their own voices, the full story of the women and men who struggled to make American democracy whole With a record number of female candidates in the 2020 election and women's rights an increasingly urgent topic in the news, it's crucial that we understand the history that got us where we are

Struggle and Suffrage in Morpeth & Northumberland: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality (Armstrong Craig)(Paperback)

For much of the nineteenth century, the women of Northumberland had occupied crucial, though largely underappreciated and acknowledged, roles within society. Aside from the hard life of raising families in an area where money was often hard to come by, and where much of the available work was labor

My Story: Suffragette (centenary edition) (Drinkwater Carol)(Paperback / softback)

It's 1909. Dollie is swept up in the thrill of the campaign for Votes for Women. Against her guardian's wishes, she marches against Parliament with Emmeline Pankhurst and fellow suffragettes. Things turn violent, women are imprisoned and endanger their lives with hunger strikes. Dollie must decide

Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics Since 1920 (Taranto Stacie)(Paperback)

In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate--a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020--a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus

Birth Control and the Rights of Women: Post-Suffrage Feminism in the Early Twentieth Century (Debenham Clare)(Paperback)

Struggle and Suffrage in Manchester: Women's Lives and the Fight for Equality (Cooper Glynis)(Paperback)

'Women are not persons.' That was the ruling of the Court of Appeal when Gwynneth Bebb challenged the Law Society to allow her to take exams and become a solicitor. The case was dismissed because only 'persons' (i.e. males) could become members of the Law Society and it proved the depth of misogyny

Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (DuBois Ellen Carol)(Pevná vazba)

Honoring the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, this exciting history explores the full scope of the movement to win the vote for women through portraits of its bold leaders and devoted activists. Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years

Dispatches from the Race War (Wise Tim)(Paperback)

Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today.Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and exhorts them to combat racist power

Art of Freedom - The life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka (McDonald Bernadette)(Paperback / softback)

In Art of Freedom, Bernadette McDonald pulls no punches in sharing her insights into Voytek Kurtyka's complicated relationships with partners, the law, climbing goals, risk and lifestyle, resulting in a picture of a truly remarkable man and one of the greatest alpinists of all

Art, Theatre and Women's Suffrage (Cockroft Irene)(Paperback)

According to figures from the Centre for Women and Democracy, the percentage of female MPs elected on May 6th, 2010 had risen to only 21.5% of the total - about a dozen extra women in the Commons. At a time when many are reluctant to adopt the label 'feminist', and when the movement towards proper

Ascent Of Woman - A History of the Suffragette Movement (Phillips Melanie)(Paperback / softback)

The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is about much more than a peripheral if picturesque skirmish around the introduction of universal suffrage. It is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. The movement for women's suffrage in

The Denial of Death (Becker Ernest)(Paperback)

Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the why of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's

Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art (Demonte Claudia)(Pevná vazba)

In celebration of the hundredth anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States, this reissue of Women of the World: A Global Collection of Art presents 174 artworks by 174 women from 174 countries, combining to present an aggregate, powerful statement about the continuity of women's struggles

A Simple Justice: Kentucky Women Fight for the Vote (Goan Melanie Beals)(Pevná vazba)

When the Declaration of Independence was signed by a group of wealthy white men in 1776, poor white men, African Americans, and women quickly discovered that the unalienable rights it promised were not truly for all. The Nineteenth Amendment eventually gave women the right to vote in 1920, but the

The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America (Gordon Linda)(Paperback)

'Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Books for 2004'The only book to cover the entire history of birth control and the intense controversies about reproduction rights that have raged in the United States for more than 150 years, 'The Moral Property of Women' is a thoroughly updated and revised

Women's Suffrage in Wales (Tippings Lisa)(Paperback)

Women's Suffrage In Wales allows its readers to take a glimpse at the lives of the many ordinary Welsh women who contributed in some way to the suffrage movement. Although suffragettes from across the rest of Britain, such as Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davis, have become household names,

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Akkerman Nadine)(Paperback)

It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by Susan Hyde, sister of Edward Hyde, Earl of

Women of the Foreign Office: Britain's First Female Ambassadors (Warburton Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

Since the suffrage campaigns in the early twentieth century, the advancement of women's rights in the UK has been nonstop. Proponents of the cause have aimed for equality across all sectors: personal and civil rights, employment rights, equal pay - and yet Britain's first official female ambassador