Title
Women and the vote : a world history / Jad Adams.
ISBN
9780191016820 (electronic book)
0191016829 (electronic book)
9781322158389
132215838X
9780198706847
0198706847
9780198706854
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 516 pages)
Call Number
JF851 .A43 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
324.6
Summary
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 women and the vote, it takes the story of women in politics from the earliest times to the present day, revealing startling new connections across time and national boundaries - from Europe and North America to Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Muslim world post- 9/11. A story of individuals as well as of wider movements, it includes the often dramatic life-stories of women's suffrage pioneers from across the world, painting vivid biographical portraits of everyone from Susan B. Anthony and the Pankhursts to hitherto lesser-known activists in China, Latin America, and Africa. It is also the first major post-feminist history of women's struggle for the vote. Controversially, Jad Adams rejects the idea that success was primarily a result of the pressure group politics of the suffragists and their supporters. Ultimately, he argues, it was nationalism, not feminism, that was the most important factor in winning women the vote. -- from dust jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Democracy before democracy
The rights of man
Early British radicals
The rise of the middle-class campaigner
New-found rights in new-found lands
"In with our women" in the Western US
Out of the doll's house in Scandinavia
Lobbyists to militants in Britain
Victory and disenfranchisement in the US
Who won votes from the war?
The Pope and the vote : Catholic Europe
Latin American mothers of the nation
The enfranchisement of the East
Africa and the Cold War
The veiled vote.
