The crisis: A complete critical edition of Carrie Chapman Catt's 1916 presidential address to the national American woman suffrage association

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Desch Croy
Keyword(s):  
Critical Edition ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Woman Suffrage

Persuading the “Male Preserve”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Goodier ◽  
Karen Pastorello
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
New York State ◽  
American Woman ◽  
White Men ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
York State ◽  
Unique Aspect ◽  
Anna Howard Shaw ◽  
Urban Immigrants

This chapter focuses on men, the only empowered contingent of the suffrage movement. While some men had always voiced support for woman suffrage, no sustained men's organization existed in the state until 1908. That year, Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, encouraged the founding of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which then served as an affiliate of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. These elite white men, often raised or living in suffrage households, risked embarrassment and censure by publicly displaying their support for woman suffrage. As their participation became routine, the novelty of it wore off. These privileged male champions of woman suffrage inspired men of other classes—including urban immigrants and rural, upstate men—to reconsider their suffrage stance. This unique aspect of the suffrage coalition thereby played a lesser but crucial role in winning the vote for women.

Anna Howard Shaw

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha Franzen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
American Woman ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Poor Family ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Economic Reality ◽  
Gender Boundaries ◽  
Anna Howard Shaw

This first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the adoption of non-traditional gender roles. Challenging traditional gender boundaries throughout her life, she put herself through college, worked as an ordained minister and a doctor, and built a tightly knit family with her secretary and longtime companion Lucy E. Anthony. Drawing on unprecedented research, the book shows how these circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues. The book also rehabilitates Shaw's years as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), arguing that Shaw's much-belittled tenure actually marked a renaissance of both NAWSA and the suffrage movement as a whole.

Facing Contradictions

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha Franzen
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
The Core ◽  
Suffrage Movement ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
Anna Howard Shaw ◽  
Women’S History

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the life and accomplishments of Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919) as well as the author's account of how she became interested in Shaw. It then sets out the book's primary purpose, which is to provide a much-needed biography of a major figure in U.S. women's history. The book is also a historiographic mystery. How and why have so few historians taken an in-depth look at Anna Howard Shaw? Why is there no discussion of the fact that she was the first and only salaried president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association? And certainly the core question remains: how important was Shaw to the woman's suffrage movement? The chapter urges two core changes to Shaw scholarship. First we must consider what the sources actually tell us. The second is to open up the analyses and consider the possibility of other views of Shaw.

Connecting Links: The British and American Woman Suffrage Movements, 1900-1914

2002 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1560
Author(s):  
Genevieve G. McBride ◽  
Patricia Greenwood Harrison
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
Woman Suffrage

REFLECTIONS ON AILEEN KRADITOR'S LEGACY: FIFTY YEARS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE HISTORIOGRAPHY, 1965–2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise M. Newman
Keyword(s):  
American Woman ◽  
Woman Suffrage ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Western Imperialism ◽  
Fundamental Insight ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Regional Histories

AbstractThis article assesses the impact that Aileen Kraditor's classic monograph, The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement (1965) has had on fifty years of suffrage historiography. Kraditor is best known among scholars for offering the terms “justice” and “expediency” to distinguish between two strains of suffragist argumentation, the former of which she associated with the nineteenth century and the latter with the Progressive Era. Although specialists no longer believe in a firm divide between the two periods, many continue to differentiate between principled (egalitarian) arguments that called for suffrage as a universal right of citizenship and instrumental (expedient) claims that often contained racist assumptions about white women's superiority. The majority of scholars now accept Kraditor's fundamental insight that a political movement devoted to the extension of democracy contained within it antidemocratic and racist elements, but they have challenged other key aspects of Kraditor's work, including her characterization of white southern women's advocacy of suffrage and her Turnerian assumptions about why statewide suffrage referenda succeeded first (and primarily) in the West. In addition, scholars have expanded the terrain of women's political activism to include analyses of black women's suffrage activities and understandings of citizenship; in so doing they have connected the regional histories of the South and the Midwest, displacing Kraditor's national narrative. Collectively the field has moved far beyond Kraditor's focus on the National American Woman Suffrage Association to emphasize the enormous range of suffrage activities that took place before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, demonstrating how woman suffrage encompassed new understandings of citizenship that were inseparable from the histories of Reconstruction, U.S. expansion, and western imperialism.

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