Woman suffrage and citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

Woman suffrage and citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 / Sara Egge.

Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities--in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophis...

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Main Author: Egge, Sara (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 2018.
Series:Iowa and the Midwest experience.
Subjects:
Rural women > Suffrage > Iowa > History.
Women > Suffrage > Iowa > History.
Suffragists > Iowa > Biography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Suffragists
Women > Suffrage
Iowa
Biographies
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Citizenship, Community, and Civic Responsibility in the Midwest; Chapter 1. Hardship and Bounty: Building Midwestern Communities; Chapter 2. Humble Beginnings: How Midwestern Women Claimed Civic Activism; Chapter 3. Gender, Citizenship, and the Struggle to Achieve Woman Suffrage, 1880â#x80;#x93;1900; Chapter 4. Woman Suffrage as an Obligation: Civic Responsibility and Citizenship, 1900â#x80;#x93;1916; Chapter 5. Fighting for Democracy: Woman Suffrage, Loyalty, and World War I; Conclusion. Remembering Woman Suffrage: Gender and Midwestern Identity; Notes.

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