Overview

The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York City and beyond came together to help women gain the right to vote.

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Author:   Brooke Kroeger
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   Excelsior Editions
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438466293

ISBN 10:   1438466293
Pages:   390
Publication Date:   01 September 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments An Introduction 1. ""If Men Should Be Wanted"": 1907-1908 2. ""The Favor of Such Men"": 1909 3. ""What Can We Do to Persuade You?"": 1910 4. ""Jeers and Abuse"": 1911 5. ""The Change in Public Sentiment Is Remarkable"": 1912 6. ""Gettes and Gists"": 1913 7. ""This Whole Feminist Front"": 1914 8. ""Should Women Vote in New York?"": 1915 9. ""It May Move Like a Glacier, But ..."": 1916 10. ""Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty?"": 1917 A Coda ""The Least Tribute We Can Pay Them"": 1918-1920 Suffragent Portraits List and Credits Notes Bibliography Index"

Reviews

The Suffragents is proof that the clatter of dishes that America's power brokers were hearing as they sat in their smoking parlors back in the early twentieth century meant more than clean china and emptied ashtrays. Someone was cooking up plans. The book reveals the careful, never-before-told story of how women carefully calculated and planned their own liberation, directing the prominent power brokers in America into action. With smooth efficiency and the touch of a novelist, Brooke Kroeger shows how the suffragist movement, engineered by women from top to bottom, cleverly stitched in the involvement of men from all walks of professional and political life, directed by women who used neither gun nor blade to direct the men, but the weapons of intelligence, cleverness, and when necessary, subterfuge. The collaboration in this balance of power between prominent men who invested in the movement, and the women who directed them, has everything to teach us today. - James McBride, author of The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother and The Good Lord Bird Not all the suffragists who risked ridicule to march down Fifth Avenue in the big parades touting votes for women wore dresses. Brooke Kroeger meticulously documents the largely unsung role of men who publicly supported their wives, mothers, sisters, or lovers in the final dramatic decade of women's seventy-year battle for the ballot. - Linda J. Lumsden, author of Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland and Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly Women 'need' men to get the rights they deserve: after all, men had to vote to let women vote. Brooke Kroeger gives us the first history of the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, the 'Gentleman's Auxiliary' of the women's movement. Eschewing the spotlight, they supported gender equality, as we all should, because it's quite simply the right thing to do. With this gift, Kroeger gives us back a bit of our history. - Michael S. Kimmel, coeditor of Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990: A Documentary History

Author Information

Brooke Kroeger is Professor at the New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. Her books include Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist and Fannie: The Talent for Success of Writer Fannie Hurst.

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