Suffrage and the City : New York Women Battle for the Ballot 1st Edition Lauren C. Santangelo

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190850361
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190850364
• Author(s): Lauren C. Santangelo

In 1917, women won the vote in New York State. Suffrage and the City explores how activists in New York City were instrumental in achieving this milestone. Santangelo uncovers the ways in which the demand for women’s rights intersected with the history, politics, and culture of New York City in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The fight for the vote in the nation’s largest metropolis demanded that suffragists both mobilize and contest urban etiquette, as they worked to gain visibility and underscore their cause’s respectability.

From the Polo Grounds to the Lower East Side, organizers championed political equality to anyone who would listen in the early twentieth century. Their Fifth Avenue parades showcased the various Manhattan subcultures, including industrial laborers, teachers, nurses, and even socialites, that they transformed into a broad coalition by the 1910s. Films and newspapers broadcasted their tactics to rest of the country, just as the national suffrage organization decided to draw on Gotham’s resources by moving its own headquarters to midtown and thereby turning Manhattan into the movement’s capital.

Table contents:

Introduction
1. “The Wickedness of the Masses”: The Perils of Suffrage, 1870–1894
2. Becoming “A Lover of the Metropolis,” 1895–1906
3. Ushering in a “New Era,” 1907–1909
4. Geographies of Suffrage, 1910–1913
5. “Suffrage ‘Owns’ City,” 1913–1915
6. From Confrontation to Collaboration, 1916 and 1917
Epilogue
Appendix: Key Suffrage Organizations in Manhattan
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

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