Uprising: How Women Used the Us West to Win the Right to Vote (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611863826)

Decades before white women won the right to vote throughout the United States, they first secured that right in its Western region--beginning in Wyoming in 1869. Many scholars have studied why and how the Western states enfranchised women before the Eastern ones; this book instead examines the influence of the West on the national US suffrage movement. As the campaign for woman suffrage intensified, US suffragists often invoked the West in their verbal, visual, and embodied advocacy. In deploying this region as a persuasive resource, they challenged the traditional meanings of the West and East, thus gaining additional persuasive strategies. Tiffany Lewis's analysis of the public discourse, images, and performances of suffragists and their opponents shows that the West played a pivotal role in the successful campaign for white women's enfranchisement that culminated in 1920. In addition to offering a history of this political movement's rhetorical strategy, Lewis illustrates the usefulness of region in protest--the way social movements can tactically employ region to motivate social change.

Author: Tiffany Lewis
ISBN-10: 1611863821
ISBN-13: 9781611863826
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2022