One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
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One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement
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Overview
One Woman, One Vote was first published by NewSage Press in 1975 and is the companion book to the PBS American Experience documentary by the same name. This book continues to be the most comprehensive collection of writings — contemporary and historical — on the woman suffrage movement in America. The PBS documentary, produced by the Educational Film Center, has also been updated with an intro by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
The 23 essays in the Second Edition focus on aspects of the suffrage movement in greater depth with an extensive opening chapter on the overall suffrage movement, "How Woman Won." Many of these prominent contemporary scholars challenge widely accepted traditional theories and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment. Together, they tell the fascinating story of woman's suffrage from the failure of the Constitution to enfranchise women to the political engagement of women after 1920.
The authors of the essays are scholars in the fields of History, American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, and they help readers “rediscover” the suffrage movement through their engaging writing, offering intriguing and often contradictory interpretations of historical accounts.
The editor, Marjorie J. Spruill, Ph.D., is a leading authority in women’s and Southern history, and has authored numerous books and essays related to woman suffrage and women's fight for equality. She speaks internationally on these topics and is well respected among historians. Her most recent book, Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics has been praised in numerous reviews, including "The New York Times," "The New Yorker," "The Nation," and more.
New material includes an insightful essay by Spruill on racism in the movement, “The Inhospitable South and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage.” She describes the long and often frustrating effort beginning in the 1890s by northern and southern suffragists to bring the Southern states into the movement—an effort thwarted by widespread ideas about white supremacy and states' rights among white Southerners who viewed the movement as an unwelcome offshoot of the antislavery movement.
Readers of One Woman, One Vote learn how the suffrage movement—from its beginning in 1848 to its conclusion in 1920, and beyond—changed over time in response to changes in American society and politics. In the Second Edition, two new chapters expand on international suffrage efforts as they relate to the U.S.
Readers also learn of the growing diversity of the suffrage constituency in terms of region, religion, race, class, ethnicity, and even attitude, and that the suffrage story included both a record of harmony and cooperation but also discrimination and betrayal. For many women of color the struggle to get the vote did not end in 1920, but continued for the next 100 years—and continues today.
Above all, Spruill emphasizes that the vote was not “given” to women when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920: generations of suffragists labored long and hard to win the right to vote in the United States.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780939165766 |
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| Publisher: | NewSage Press |
| Publication date: | 08/17/2021 |
| Edition description: | Second Edition |
| Pages: | 560 |
| Sales rank: | 928,282 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
| Age Range: | 14 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Spruill is the author or editor of six books on woman suffrage including the first edition of One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement (NewSage Press), the companion volume to the PBS documentary One Woman, One Vote.
Most recently, Spruill wrote Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics (Bloomsbury 2017). In this book, she addresses the rise of the modern women's rights movement to a peak period of success, the mobilization of social conservatives in opposition, and the impact on American political culture. Other edited works on suffrage include VOTES FOR WOMEN! The Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation (University of Tennessee Press).
Spruill is also the author of New Women of the New South: The Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (Oxford University Press). She also co-edited a two-volume textbook on the history of the American South and two multi-volume anthologies about the “lives and times” of women in South Carolina and Mississippi. Spruill was the historical consultant for the HBO movie Iron Jawed Angels and has been an advisor to several museums, including the National Archives for its exhibit, “Rightfully Hers,” celebrating the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Spruill’s work has been supported by fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a research award from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation. She spent a year at the National Humanities Center.
During her career, Spruill was a professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, Vanderbilt (where she was an Associate Provost) and the University of South Carolina. Recently retired, Spruill lives in South Carolina where she continues to write and consult on a variety of projects.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents1. How Women Won: The Long Road to the Nineteenth Amendment
Marjorie J. Spruill
2. Ourselves and Our Daughters Forever: Women and the Constitution, 1787-1876
Linda K. Kerber
3. The Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Gage, eds.
4. A Feminist Friendship: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Alice S. Rossi
5. White Women's Rights, Black Men's Wrongs, Free Love, Blackmail, and the Formation of the American Woman Suffrage Association
Andrea Moore Kerr
6. Taking the Law Into Our Own Hands: Bradwell, Minor, and Suffrage Militance in the 1870s
Ellen Carol DuBois
7. How the West Was Won for Woman Suffrage
Beverly Beeton
8. Frances Willard and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's Conversion to Woman Suffrage
Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford
9. Bringing in the South: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage in the Southern States
Marjorie J. Spruill
10. African American Women and the Woman Suffrage Movement
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
11. The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Katherine M. Marino
12. The Suffrage Renaissance: A New Image for a New Century, 1896-1910
Sara Hunter Graham
13. Jane Addams, Progressivism, and Woman Suffrage: An Introduction to "Why Women Should Vote"
Victoria Bissell Brown
Why Women Should Vote
Jane Addams
14. "Better Citizens Without the Ballot": American Anti-suffrage Women and Their Rationale During the Progressive Era
Manuela Thurner
15. Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909
Ellen Carol DuBois
16. A Politics of Coalition: Socialist Women and the California Suffrage Movement, 1900-1911
Sherry J. Katz
17. Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club of Chicago
Wanda A. Hendricks
18. Alice Paul and the Triumph of Militancy
Linda G. Ford
19. Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist
Robert Booth Fowler
20. Minnie Fisher Cunningham's Back Door Lobby in Texas Political Maneuvering in a One-Party State
Judith N. McArthur
21. Armageddon in Tennessee: The Final Battle Over the Nineteenth Amendment
Anastatia Sims
22. Across the Great Divide: Women in Politics Before and After 1920
Nancy F. Cott
23. A Century of Woman Suffrage
Marjorie J. Spruill
Appendix One
The Electoral Thermometer: Woman Suffrage Won by State Constitutional Amendments and Legislative Acts Before the Proclamation of the Nineteenth Amendment
Appendix Two
Chronology of Congressional Action
Appendix Three
Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment by State
Appendix Four
Progress of Women’s Enfranchisement Worldwide
The Contributors
Index
What People are Saying About This
Students, scholars, and lay readers alike will be grateful for the clarity with which this book tells the story of the woman suffrage movement in the United States. An important book and a useful one.
—Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, State University of New York, Binghamton
"One Woman, One Vote has been indispensable to me as I've worked to learn so much of the history that I'd not been taught about the nation and its centuries-long struggle toward full enfranchisement."
—Rebecca Traister, Author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
The study of the woman suffrage movement has flourished since the first edition of the anthology One Woman, One Vote appeared during the celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment’s 75th anniversary. Marjorie Spruill’s expanded second edition, published as part of the commemoration of the amendment’s Centennial, is a deeply satisfying and essential update, attending as it does to the campaign in the South, the international context, and the first hundred years of women voting. As with the first edition, the suffrage story told here will be compelling for both students and general readers.
Marjorie Spruill's seminal anthology One Woman, One Vote sits near the desk—within easy reach—of every scholar and student of the American woman suffrage movement. Few volumes capture the movement so vividly, from so many vantage points, illuminating the complexity and contradictions of this major epoch of our history. This new edition is a welcome gift to a new generation of readers, who will find it both a fascinating read and a valuable resource.
Students, scholars, and lay readers alike will be grateful for the clarity with which this book tells the story of the woman suffrage movement in the United States. An important book and a useful one.
—Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, State University of New York, Binghamton
Interviews
One Woman One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement is different in soe ways from other books on the U.S. woman suffrage movement, new or old, in that it is more comprehensive. Many of the newer books assume knowledge of the “standard” suffrage narrative and its major leaders, and focus on specific people who have been overlooked, including women of color and women from outside the Northeastern U.S. This new edition adds a vast amount of information based on new research and new scholarship by others.
One Woman One Book offers both: it offers a series of essays by leading scholars who, together, tell the story of the suffrage movement from many perspectives and concerns: from why women did not gain the vote as the United States was founded to the impact of the Nineteenth Amendment to what happened after women got the vote. It includes essays on African American women in the suffrage movement, the suffrage movement in the West, and the global sisterhood of the international struggle for woman suffrage and equal rights.
This expanded Second Edition features new essays by experts on the woman suffrage movement in the South (discussing how white supremacy impeded the success of the movement in the region) and on the international context of the U.S. woman suffrage movement. In addition, I have authored or edited many books on woman suffrage, and I have also published on the rise of the modern feminist and anti-feminist movements. In 2017, Bloomsbury Publishing released my book, Divided We Stand: The Battle Over WOmen's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics.
In a new final chapter of One Woman, One Vote, “A Century of Woman Suffrage,” I bring the suffrage story from 1920 all the way through the 2020 election. I explain why women’s initial turnout in the 1920s was low; how women of color finally gained full voting rights through the Voting Rights Act of 1965; how women in U.S. territories gained the vote; how the civil rights movement and the modern women’s movement led to vast increases in women’s turnout at the polls; how current trends in women’s political participation evolved; and how Americans observed the Suffrage Centennial in the midst of a worldwide pandemic and a historic presidential election in which the first woman and woman of color was elected as Vice President of the United States.
We have also added some great historic photographs, illustrations, and appendices.
Preface
The essays in this anthology focus on different aspects of the suffrage story but, presented in roughly chronological order, together tell the intriguing story of the woman suffrage movement—from the failure of the Constitution to enfranchise women to the participation of women in politics after 1920. In addition, a new concluding essay continues the story of woman suffrage past 1920 through the 2020 presidential election.
The authors of the essays, scholars in the fields of History, American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, each advance our understanding of the movement’s history and offer intriguing and sometimes conflicting interpretations, and challenge widely accepted theories about the movement’s history. The book’s editor, historian Marjorie J. Spruill, starts off the book with a thorough overview of the woman suffrage movement that provides background for the essays that follow.
Together, the essays describe why a suffrage movement was necessary, how the movement began, and how it changed over time in response to changes in American history and politics. Through them we are introduced to several generations of suffrage leaders and learn of the supportive relationships as well as tensions that developed among them. We learn of the growing diversity of the suffrage constituency in terms of region, religion, race, class, ethnicity, and even attitude, and that the suffrage story included both a record of harmony and cooperation between diverse groups of suffragists, and a disturbing record of discrimination and betrayal.
We come to a better understanding of the reasons that some American men and women opposed woman suffrage, and how—despite so many obstacles—suffragists finally prevailed. In addition, we discover that after the Nineteenth Amendment was added to the U.S. Constitution, the diverse coalition known as the suffrage movement did not—and indeed, could not—turn into a united voting “bloc.” However, women continued to be politically active in a wide range of organizations and movements. Some women, including women in the U.S. territories, immigrant women, many Native American women, and African American women living in the Southern States, had to continue to fight for enfranchisement well after 1920.
Above all, we learn that the franchise was not given to women when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified one hundred years ago: generations of suffragists labored long and hard to win this acknowledgment of woman’s right to vote in the United States. And women have had to continue to fight for full voting rights and political equality.
After 1920, cultural as well as deliberately constructed obstacles to women voting kept the numbers of women who turned out to vote low relative to that of men for decades. But over time the women’s vote became ever more extensive as women overcame these barriers. For forty years, women have turned out to vote at higher rates than men. The woman’s vote is not, and never has been, united but it is recognized as massive and highly influential in American politics.