Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: A Walk through Suffrage History 1
4. PART ONE. Claiming Citizenship
5. 1. The Trial of Susan B. Anthony and the “Rochester Fifteen” 13
6. 2. Sojourner Truth Speaks Truth to Power 29
7. 3. Sister-Wives and Suffragists 41
8. 4. Alice Stone Blackwell and the Armenian Crisis of the 1890s 55
9. 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman Finds Her Voice 67
10. PART TWO. The Personal Is Political
11. 6. The Shadow of the Confederacy 83
12. 7. Ida Wells-Barnett and the Alpha Suffrage Club 99
13. 8. Two Sisters 111
14. 9. Claiborne Catlin’s Suffrage Pilgrimage 123
15. 10. “How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette” 137
16. 11. The Farmer-Suffragettes 151
17. 12. Suffragists Abroad 165
18. PART THREE. Winning Strategies
19. 13. Mountaineering for Suffrage 179
20. 14. Hazel MacKaye and the “Allegory” of Woman Suffrage 195
21. 15. “Bread and Roses” and Votes for Women Too 209
22. 16. Cartooning with a Feminist Twist 223
23. 17. Jailed for Freedom 237
24. 18. Maud Wood Park and the Front Door Lobby 251
25. 19. Tennessee’s “Perfect 36” 265
26. Epilogue: “Leaving All to Younger Hands” 279
27. Notes 291
28. Acknowledgments 321
29. Index 325