Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920
Iowa and the Midwest Experience

Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

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Winner of the 2019 Gita Chaudhuri Prize

Winner of the 2019 Benjamin F. Shambaugh Award


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 sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. 

These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge’s detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women’s Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement’s goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. 

By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century. 

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2018
15 February
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
242
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Iowa Press
SIZE
3.8
MB
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