With this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood.An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the adoption of non-traditional gender roles. Challenging traditional gender boundaries throughout her life, she put herself through college, worked as an ordained minister and a doctor, and built a tightly-knit family with her secretary and longtime companion Lucy E. Anthony.Drawing on unprecedented research, Franzen shows how these circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues. Franzen also rehabilitates Shaw's years as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, arguing that Shaw's much-belittled tenure actually marked a renaissance of both NAWSA and the suffrage movement as a whole.
Titel
Anna Howard Shaw
Untertitel
The Work of Woman Suffrage
Autor
EAN
9780252095412
ISBN
978-0-252-09541-2
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
01.03.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.15 MB
Anzahl Seiten
304
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch
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