Gilded Suffragists : : The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote /

Gilded Suffragists : : The New York Socialites who Fought for Women's Right to Vote / / Johanna Neuman.

New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names-Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like-car...

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Neuman, Johanna,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Washington Mews Books
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 30 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Club of Their Own
  • 2. The Celebrity Endorsement
  • 3. The Birth of a Rivalry
  • 4. A Rivalry Collapses
  • 5. The Gilded Face of Modernity
  • 6. Mere Men
  • 7. The Tactical Turn
  • 8. The Great Wars
  • 9. Who Won Suffrage?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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