Research Catalog

Title

Woman suffrage & citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 / Sara Egge.

Author

Egge, Sara

Publication

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

xi, 233 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

Historian Sara Egge offers critical insights into the woman suffrage movement by exploring how it emerged in small Midwestern communities--in Clay County, Iowa; Lyon County, Minnesota; and Yankton County, South Dakota. Examining this grassroots activism offers a new approach that uncovers the sophisticated ways Midwestern suffragists understood citizenship as obligation. These suffragists, mostly Yankees who migrated from the Northeast after the Civil War, participated enthusiastically in settling the region and developing communal institutions such as libraries, schools, churches, and parks. Meanwhile, as Egge's detailed local study also shows, the efforts of the National American Women's Suffrage Association did not always succeed in promoting the movement's goals. Instead, it gained support among Midwesterners only when local rural women claimed the right to vote on the basis of their well-established civic roles and public service. By investigating civic responsibility, Egge reorients scholarship on woman suffrage and brings attention to the Midwest, a region overlooked by most historians of the movement. In doing so, she sheds new light onto the ways suffragists rejuvenated the cause in the twentieth century.

Series Statement

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

Uniform Title

Iowa and the Midwest experience.

Alternative Title

Woman suffrage and citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

Subjects

• Women's rights
• Women > Suffrage
• Suffragists
• Suffragists > Middle West
• Women's rights > Middle West > History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
• Women > Suffrage > Middle West > History
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections
• Biographies
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
• History
• Middle West

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Citizenship, Community, and Civic Responsibility in the Midwest -- Chapter 1. Hardship and Bounty : Building Midwestern Communities -- Chapter 2. Humble Beginnings : How Midwestern Women Claimed Civic Activism -- Chapter 3. Gender, Citizenship, and the Struggle to Achieve Woman Suffrage, 1880-1900 -- Chapter 4. Woman Suffrage as an Obligation : Civic Responsibility and Citizenship, 1900-1916 -- Chapter 5. Fighting for Democracy : Woman Suffrage, Loyalty, and World War I -- Conclusion : Remembering Woman Suffrage : Gender and Midwestern Identity.

Call Number

JFE 20-2817

ISBN

• 9781609385576
• 1609385578

LCCN

2017039369

OCLC

1032291411

Author

Egge, Sara, author.

Title

Woman suffrage & citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920 / Sara Egge.

Publisher

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

Iowa and the Midwest experience.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: CENTRE COLLEGE.

Spine Title

Woman suffrage and citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920

Other Form:

Online version: Egge, Sara. Woman suffrage and citizenship in the American Midwest, 1879-1920. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2018 9781609385583 (DLC) 2018019322

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2817