{"product_id":"votes-for-women-marjorie-spruill-wheeler-9780870498374","title":"Votes for Women: The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003eA unique collection of scholarly essays and primary documents, \u003ci\u003eVotes for Women!\u003c\/i\u003e brings into sharp focus the suffrage battles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Not only does the book examine the struggle at the national level but it looks in depth at how the drama played out in the South and in Tennessee, which in 1920 became the pivotal thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment--thereby making woman suffrage the law of the land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume contains six essays by leading scholars on topics ranging from the strategies suffragists used to raise the national consciousness to the participation of African-American women in the movement. Also included are discussions of anti-suffragist beliefs and literature, the obstacles to woman suffrage in the South posed by white supremacy and state's rights, and the ways in which women have used their political power since receiving the vote.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA special feature of the book is its compilation of primary materials--articles, speeches, cartoons, and broadsides--representing the viewpoints of suffragists and anti suffragists alike. Among these documents are the previously unpublished memoirs of the Tennessee anti-suffrage leader Josephine Anderson Pearson and a chapter on Tennessee from the 1923 book by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Roger Shuler, \u003ci\u003eWoman Suffrage and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, which contains a fascinating firsthand account of the final, no-holds-barred battle over woman suffrage in Nashville during the summer of 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished to coincide with the seventy-fifth anniversary of the suffragists' victory, this book, at once stirring and thoughtful, commemorates the courage of those involved in the suffrage movement and recaptures the intensity of emotions and ideology on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marjorie Spruill Wheeler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0870498371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780870498374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Tennessee Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.02w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/1995 pg. 92","brand":"Marjorie Spruill Wheeler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47611012219135,"sku":"9780870498374","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_54c7ebda-66a7-4749-9985-46aa9c4a7a3f.jpg?v=1764511143","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/votes-for-women-marjorie-spruill-wheeler-9780870498374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}