Jailed for freedom : American women win the vote - Stevens, Doris, 1888-1963.

Founding sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment - Clift, Eleanor.

Summary: Historical overview examining the 72 year struggle to secure women's right to vote.

Contents: Stirrings of discontent -- "Ain't I a woman?" -- Testing the limits -- Passing the torch -- Division in the ranks -- Martyr for the cause -- Out of bondage -- A vote for mother.

The embattled vote in America : from the founding to the present - Lichtman, Allan J.,

Summary: Americans have died for the right to vote. Yet our democratic system guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders'...

Contents: Introduction: Voters and non-voters -- The founding father's mistake -- A white man's republic -- Constructing and deconstructing the vote -- Votes for women -- The absent voter -- The Voting...

Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all - Jones, Martha S.

Summary: "According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The...

The scarlet sisters : sex, suffrage, and scandal in the Gilded Age - MacPherson, Myra.

Summary: Describes the adventures of two sisters who tried to overcome the male-dominated social norms of the late nineteenth century and achieved a remarkable list of firsts, including the first woman-run...

Give us the ballot : the modern struggle for voting rights in America - Berman, Ari,

Summary: "On the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, a riveting and alarming account of the continuing battle over the right to vote The adoption of the landmark Voting Rights Act in 1965...

Contents: The second Emancipation -- The second Reconstruction -- The Southern strategy -- Hands that pick cotton -- The counterrevolution -- Challenging the consensus -- The realignment -- The...

Gilded suffragists : the New York socialites who fought for women's right to vote - Neuman, Johanna,

Summary: 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...

Contents: A club of their own -- The celebrity endorsement -- The birth of a rivalry -- A rivalry collapses -- The gilded face of modernity -- Mere men -- The tactical turn -- The great wars -- Who won...

A century of votes for women : American elections since suffrage - Wolbrecht, Christina,

Summary: "How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In...

Contents: Women at the polls -- Women without the vote -- Explaining women voters -- Enter the women voters -- Feminine mystique and the American voter -- Feminism resurgent -- The discovery of the gender...

Anna Howard Shaw : the work of woman suffrage - Franzen, Trisha, 1951-

Summary: "Acknowledged by her contemporaries as the most outstanding woman suffrage orator of her time, Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) has nonetheless received minimal attention from historians. Trisha...

Contents: Introduction.Facing contradictions --The development of a dissenter (1847-1870) --The road to independence (1871-1880) --Finding the cause (1881-1889) --Apprenticeship in the National American...

Shall not be denied : women fight for the vote : official companion to the Library of Congress exhibition

Summary: "Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote tells the story of the long campaign for women's suffrage - considered the largest reform movement in American history - which lasted more than seven...

Contents: Building a movement -- New tactics for a new generation -- Fortitude, sacrifice, victory -- The fight continues.