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Author Egge, Sara, author.

Title Woman suffrage & citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 / Sara Egge.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  324.6230977 Eg32w 2018    ---  Available
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Description xi, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Minnesotans lcdgt
Series Iowa and the Midwest Experience
Iowa and the Midwest experience.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.
Contents Introduction : Citizenship, Community, and Civic Responsibility in the Midwest -- Chapter 1. Hardship and Bounty : Building Midwestern Communities -- Chapter 2. Humble Beginnings : How Midwestern Women Claimed Civic Activism -- Chapter 3. Gender, Citizenship, and the Struggle to Achieve Woman Suffrage, 1880-1900 -- Chapter 4. Woman Suffrage as an Obligation : Civic Responsibility and Citizenship, 1900-1916 -- Chapter 5. Fighting for Democracy : Woman Suffrage, Loyalty, and World War I -- Conclusion : Remembering Woman Suffrage : Gender and Midwestern Identity.
Summary Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities--in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge's detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women's Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement's goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.
Subject Women -- Suffrage -- Middle West -- History.
Suffragists -- Middle West.
Women's rights -- Middle West -- History.
Suffragists. (OCoLC)fst01137197
Women -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst01176996
Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Biographies.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Spine Title Woman suffrage and citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920
ISBN 9781609385576 paperback alkaline paper
1609385578 paperback alkaline paper

 
    
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