Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592719001087
Abstract: I offer a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the disenfranchisements of the early Republic to efforts to secure equal voting rights in the… read more here.
Keywords: partisan polarization; suffrage; suffrage 1785; 1785 1868 ... See more keywords
“Whores” and “Hottentots”: Protection of (white) women and white supremacy in anti-suffrage rhetoric
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DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2020.1785628
Abstract: ABSTRACT Through an analysis of anti-suffrage arguments, I identify white supremacist tropes as an important strand in woman suffrage debates. I argue that sexualization and themes of home were signals to racial bias, and American… read more here.
Keywords: whores hottentots; hottentots protection; protection white; anti suffrage ... See more keywords
‘We who strive for the foundation of a principle’: feminism and suffrage in the biography of Bessie Parkes Belloc
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DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1745399
Abstract: ABSTRACT Bessie Rayner Parkes (later Belloc, 1829–1925) was a central figure in British women’s rights activism during the 1850s and 1860s. She was founding editor of the feminist English Woman’s Journal and one of the… read more here.
Keywords: feminism suffrage; suffrage; bessie; biography ... See more keywords
‘More reputation than she deserves’: remembering suffrage in Wyoming
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DOI: 10.1080/13642529.2016.1270562
Abstract: Abstract As the first territory and state where women voted in the U.S., and in fact the first place in the world where women exercised full enfranchisement, Wyoming’s past should raise pressing questions about the… read more here.
Keywords: suffrage wyoming; esther morris; deserves remembering; remembering suffrage ... See more keywords