Women Against Equality A History Of The Anti Suffrage Movement In The United States From 1895 To 1920

Anne Myra Benjamin, Ph.D. grew up in Washington, D.C. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Chicago, and received her doctorate in French Literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Women Against Equality, her sixth book, was inspired by a debate she heard in 1978 between Bella Abzug and Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment. The author currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to write about the history of American women.

Anne Myra Benjamin, Ph.D. grew up in Washington, D.C. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, the University of Chicago, and received her doctorate in French Literature at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Women Against Equality, her sixth book, was inspired by a debate she heard in 1978 between Bella Abzug and Phyllis Schlafly on the Equal Rights Amendment. The author currently lives in Brooklyn, New York where she continues to write about the history of American women.

No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women. Susan Goodier finds that conservative women who fought against suffrage encouraged women to retain their distinctive feminine identities as protectors of their homes and families, a role they felt was threatened by the imposition of masculine political responsibilities. She details the victories and defeats on both sides of the movement from its start in the 1890s to its end in the 1930s, acknowledging the powerful activism of this often overlooked and misunderstood political force in the history of women's equality.

The 1915 campaign by the Massachusetts Women's Anti-Suffrage Association was a successful one. These essays, written by some of the Association's active campaigners, reveal some of the period's most convincing arguments against suffrage for women.

A study of nationwide anti-women's suffrage movements, analyzing the "antis'" ideology and strategies, and offering theories on the contradictory positions women took in regard to formal political power. Includes a profile of noted anti-suffragist, Ida Tarbell, whose emancipated lifestyle belied her anti-suffragist rhetoric. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the U.S. History Category Finalist for the 2018 Sally and Morris Lasky Prize presented by the Center for Political History at Lebanon Valley College The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership, and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace. Led by such luminaries as Oswald Garrison Villard, John Dewey, Max Eastman, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and George Foster Peabody, members of the League worked the streets, the stage, the press, and the legislative and executive branches of government. In the process, they helped convince waffling politicians, a dismissive public, and a largely hostile press to support the women's demand. Together, they swayed the course of history.

Presents a comprehensive reference to the role of women in American politics and government, including biographies, related topics, organizations, primary documents, and significant court cases.

This book, originally published in 1897, argues against woman suffrage as being antithetical to both democracy and progress. The author maintains that women can progress only in relation to the general progress of humanity. This book was intended to be an answer to the arguments made in the multivolume, "History of Woman Suffrage," published in 1881-1885.