Weaving together a diverse collection of portraits and other visual materials-including photographs, drawings, paintings, prints, textiles, and mixed media-along with biographical narratives and trenchant essays, this comprehensive book presents fresh perspectives on the history of the movement.īringing attention to underrecognized individuals and groups, the leading historians featured here look at how suffragists used portraiture to promote gender equality and other feminist ideals, and how photographic portraits in particular proved to be a crucial element of women's activism and recruitment. While some of the leading figures of the suffrage movement have received deserved appreciation, the crusade for women's enfranchisement involved many individuals, each with a unique story to be told. For nearly a hundred years, from the mid-nineteenth century onward, countless American women fought for the right to vote. Marking the centenary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Votes for Women is the first richly illustrated book to reveal the history and complexity of the national suffrage movement. A richly illustrated history of women's suffrage in the United States that highlights underrecognized activists
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