Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Women's Suffrage and the Century that Follow

Description: Victory for the Vote by Doris Weatherford, Nancy Pelosi Womens history expert Doris Weatherfords Victory for the Vote: The Fight for Womens Suffrage and the Century that Followed offers readers an engaging and detailed narrative history of womens seven-decade fight for the vote and will bring those readers up to date on key achievements—and challenges—in womens equality since then. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Womens Suffrage and the Continuing Fight for Womens Rights"Weatherfords book traces the philosophical roots of the Seneca Falls convention to the 17th century and women who defied the dominant religious leadership in the nascent American colonies." Publishers Weekly 2020 Winner Sarton Womens Literary Award for NonfictionAn inspirational womens rights gift. In her book Victory for the Vote, womens history expert Doris Weatherford offers an engaging and detailed narrative history of womens seven-decade fight for the vote, and the continuing current-day struggle for human rights and equality.Foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Victory for the Vote puts the fight for womens suffrage into contemporary context by discussing key challenges for women in the decades that followed 1920, such as reproductive rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and political power.Celebrate the centennial of womens right to vote in the U.S. Victory for the Vote is an expansion and update of Doris Weatherfords A History of the American Suffragist Movement, published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, considered to be the beginning of the Womens Rights Movement in the United States.Read Doris Weatherfords Victory for the Vote and:Take pride in the struggles and accomplishments of strong womenUnderstand and appreciate the Womens Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth AmendmentCelebrate Womens History Month, feminism, and recognize the challenges that still remain on the road to human rights for allIf you enjoyed books such as And Yet They Persisted, Suffrage by Ellen Carol DuBois, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, The Womans Hour, Rad Women Worldwide, Warriors Dont Cry, or The Book of Awesome Women; you will want to read and be inspired by Victory for the Vote. Author Biography Doris Weatherford is affiliated with the University of South Florida, is active in the political arena, and has been extensively recognized for her contributions to the field of womens history. She was editor-in-chief and major contributor to the monumental reference work, A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference (Grolier Academic Reference, 2004), which offers detailed and engaging histories of women in each of the fifty states. Her other publications include Foreign and Female: Immigrant Women in America, 1840-1920 (1986), American Womens History: An AZ of People, Organizations, Issues and Events (1994), Milestones: A Chronology of American Womens History (1997), American Women during World War II (Routledge, 2009), and a two-volume work for Congressional Quarterly Press, Women in American Politics: History and Milestones (2012).Nancy Pelosi is the 52nd Speaker of the House of Representatives, having made history in 2007 when she was elected the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House. Now in her third term as Speaker, Pelosi made history again in January 2019 when she regained her position second-in-line to the presidency, the first person to do so in more than 60 years. As Speaker, Pelosi is fighting For The People, working to lower health care costs, increase workers pay through strong economic growth and rebuilding America, and clean up corruption for make Washington work for all. Promotional Centennial commemorations have begun both nationally and locally and will continue through 2020. These resources, a few of many, give a sense of the extent of the programming:This gazette, "How Women Won the Vote," published by the National Womens History Alliance, is a round-up of early planning for the centennial."Rightfully Hers: American Women and the Vote" exhibit, National Archives, through January 3, 2021. "Shall Not Be Denied: Womens Fight for the Vote" exhibit, Library of Congress, through September 19, 2020. "Womens Suffrage Celebration Coalition of Massachusetts," featuring a host of programs and events through 2020."Vision 2020: National Womens Equality Initiative," Drexel University/Pennsylvania, timeline of events.An alliance with the Womens National Book Association (WNBA)—itself 100 years old in 2017—has been established to spread the word to women influencers in the book world. The WNBA will promote the book to its community, including close to 1,000 members in eleven chapters across the country, over double that amount in newsletter and blog lists, and more than 20,000 visitors to its website and that of National Reading Group Month (NRGM), an initiative the organization owns. Dedicated ads, interviews, and articles about the book will be run across all of the WNBAs and NRGM platforms. Additionally, the WNBA is in talks with the Little Free Library to celebrate the 2020 Suffrage Centennial in a variety of ways, one of which centers around the possibility of donating Victory for the Vote to key members of the Little Free Library community. Description for Sales People The book is in two parts. Part One covers womens fight for the right to vote from the beginning. Tracing the roots of the movement to the independent women of seventeenth-century colonial America, Weatherford chronicles, in the seven original chapters, the long, complex--and sometimes tortuous--campaign to secure womens right to vote. Throughout, Weatherford emphasizes the connections of the womens movement, which rested on profound moral convictions, to the other great nineteenth-century reform movements of abolitionism, temperance, and more, as well as its shortcomings, such as, ironically, racist sentiments and behavior typical of the times. She recounts the inspiring triumphs as well as the heartbreaking setbacks of the movement and tells the human stories behind the political tug and pull that lasted over seven decades. Part Two highlights the history of womens fight for greater equality following the 1920 ratification, connecting the suffragist movement across the following century to todays world. Weatherford covers the time after winning the vote in topical chapters on key subjects still relevant today, including: Across these chapters, Weatherford traces themes that are core to story of the fight for the vote to later womens rights struggles. The tug and pull between more radical and centrist strategies and the resistance of women themselves against their own empowerment shaped the womens movement in the century that followed 1920. For instance, Margaret Sangers advocacy for womens sexual health and birth control in the 1910s, 1920s, and later often alienated less radical feminists. And in perhaps the most well-known example, a fervent antifeminism, led by Phyllis Schlafly, resulted in the ERAs defeat the late 1970s. By tracing key issues and themes following the suffrage victory, Victory for the Votehighlights the relevance of the long struggle. Weatherford shows that the fight for the vote is not an antique historical artifact, but a living laboratory that offered lessons in the following decades, as well as a handbook for todays activism. Details ISBN1642500534 Author Nancy Pelosi Publisher Mango Media Year 2020 ISBN-10 1642500534 ISBN-13 9781642500530 Format Hardcover Pages 372 Short Title Victory for the Vote Language English Imprint Mango Media Place of Publication FL Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2020-04-02 NZ Release Date 2020-04-02 US Release Date 2020-04-02 Publication Date 2020-04-02 UK Release Date 2020-04-02 DEWEY 324.623 Audience General Subtitle The Fight for Womens Suffrage and the Century that Followed (Womens Rights Movement, Womens History Month Gift) Illustrations historical/archival photos; 50 Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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