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. ..Her analysis of the use of political mimesis is outstanding...Southard's substantial coverage of the NWP's influence on the worldwide woman's movement is a welcome addition to the historiography. --;i>The Journal of Arizona History <br>--Heidi Osselaer The Journal of Arizona History (06/14/2013)

This book invites readers to adopt a distinctive approach to the radical activism of what became the National Woman''s Party by arguing that much of its impact came from its use of mimesis. Woman suffragists mimicked the inauguratuon parade with a suffrage parade, imitated the militancy of WWII with silent sentinels battling for their rights, and Wilson''s rhetorical presidency by reaching out to the citizen directly through picketing the White House while displaying large banners and using a paid press bureau to ensure front page coverage of their public actions. They parodied the words of President Wlison to show the hypocrisy of a war for democracy when U.S. women were denied suffrage, and imitating others, they formed a third party and held the party in power [Democrats] responsible for failure to pass a suffrage amendment campaigned vigorously to defeat them. <p><br>Karlyn Kohrs Campbell <p><br>Professor of Communication Studies <p><br>Universityc

. ..Her analysis of the use of political mimesis is outstanding...Southard's substantial coverage of the NWP's influence on the worldwide woman's movement is a welcome addition to the historiography. --;i>The Journal of Arizona History --Heidi Osselaer The Journal of Arizona History (06/14/2013)

This book invites readers to adopt a distinctive approach to the radical activism of what became the National Woman's Party by arguing that much of its impact came from its use of mimesis . Woman suffragists mimicked the inauguration parade with a suffrage parade, imitated the militancy of WWI with silent sentinels battling for their rights, and Wilson's rhetorical presidency by reaching out to the citizen directly through picketing the White House while displaying large banners and using a paid press bureau to ensure front page coverage of their public actions. They parodied the words of President Wlison to show the hypocrisy of a war for democracy when U.S. women were denied suffrage, and imitating others, they formed a third party and held the party in power [Democrats] responsible for failure to pass a suffrage amendment campaigned vigorously to defeat them. --Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Professor of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota<br><br>

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BELINDA A. STILLION SOUTHARD is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Georgia in Athens.

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