TY  - GEN
T1  - Woman suffrage and citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920
T2  - Iowa and the Midwest experience.
A1  - Egge, Sara
LA  - English
PP  - Iowa City, IA
PB  - University of Iowa Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1020790498
AB  - 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.
CN  - JK1911.I8
SN  - 9781609385583
SN  - 1609385586
SN  - 9781609385576
KW  - Rural women : Suffrage : Iowa : History.
KW  - Women : Suffrage : Iowa : History.
KW  - Suffragists : Iowa : Biography.
KW  - Femmes en milieu rural : Suffrage : Iowa : Histoire.
KW  - Femmes : Suffrage : Iowa : Histoire.
KW  - Suffragettes : Iowa : Biographies.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : Elections.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Political Process : General.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
KW  - Suffragists
KW  - Women : Suffrage
KW  - Iowa
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -