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Forging the franchise : the political origins of the women's vote
- Title
- Forging the franchise : the political origins of the women's vote / Dawn Langan Teele.
- Author
- Teele, Dawn Langan, 1983-
- Publication
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- © 2018 by Princeton University Press
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- Additional Authors
- Princeton University Press.
- Description
- xiv, 222 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- In the 1880s, women were barred from voting in all national-level elections, but by 1920 they were going to the polls in nearly thirty countries. By examining the path to women's political inclusion in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom, this book demonstrates that the formation of a broad movement across social divides, and strategic alliances with political parties in competitive electoral conditions, provided the leverage that ultimately transformed women into voters. In competitive environments, politicians had incentives to seek out new sources of electoral influence. A broad-based suffrage movement could reinforce those incentives by providing information about women's preferences, and an infrastructure with which to mobilize future female voters. At the same time that politicians wanted to enfranchise women who were likely to support their party, suffragists also wanted to enfranchise women whose political preferences were similar to theirs. In contexts where political rifts were too deep, suffragists who were in favor of the vote in principle mobilized against their own political emancipation.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Democratization and the Case of Women -- 3. Strategic Mobilization for Suffrage in Great Britain -- 4. Remember the Ladies: Competition and Mobilization in the United States -- 5. The "Clerical Peril" and Radical Opposition to Female Voters in France -- 6. Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-415
- ISBN
- 9780691180267
- 0691180261
- 9780691181431
- 0691181438
- LCCN
- 2018931016
- OCLC
- 1054185642
- Author
- Teele, Dawn Langan, 1983- author.
- Title
- Forging the franchise : the political origins of the women's vote / Dawn Langan Teele.
- Publisher
- Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- © 2018 by Princeton University Press
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Princeton University Press.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-415