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Author Schuyler, Lorraine Gates.

Title The weight of their votes [electronic resource] : southern women and political leverage in the 1920s / Lorraine Gates Schuyler.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 336 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.
Contents Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Women -- Political activity -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Women -- Suffrage -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Political participation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Voting -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807830666 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807830666 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807857769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807857762 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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