Steps to political equality: Woman suffrage and electoral politics in the lives of Emily Newell Blair, Anne Henrietta Martin, and Jeannette Rankin

Frontiers | January 1, 1997| | Copyright

Anniversaries have a way of focusing attention on the meanings and legacies of an event, and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment is no exception. A growing volume of research has laid to rest any notion that feminism languished in suspended animation for half a century after ratification of a federal amendment to enfranchise women. Discoveries of continuities in women's early-twentieth-century political activities have demanded a new metaphor, one that conveys suffrage's ratification not as a culminating event but as a significant step in the continuing struggle for ...

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