Publisher Description
The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote. The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's enactment, women's activists disagreed heartily over how much had been achieved, whether it was necessary for women to continue organizing for political rights, and what those political rights would bring.
Looking forward to the 100-year anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, this collection of original essays takes a long view of the past century of women's political engagement to gauge how much women have achieved in the political arena. The volume looks back at the decades since women won the right to vote to analyze the changes, developments, and even continuities in women's roles in the broad political sphere. Ultimately, the book asks two important questions about the last 100 years of women's suffrage: 1) How did the Nineteenth Amendment alter the American political system? and 2) How has women's engagement in politics changed over the last 100 years?
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“Contributes important new historical and intersectional research on the engagement of women in public life.”
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Suzanne Staggenborg, University of Pittsburgh
About the Authors
Holly J. McCammon is Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and American Studies at Vanderbilt University. Her recent book is The US Women’s Jury Movements and Strategic Adaptation: A More Just Verdict. She is a former editor of the American Sociological Review and collaborated in editing The Oxford Handbook of US Women’s Social Movement Activism.
Lee Ann Banaszak is professor of political science and women’s studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on women’s movements in the United States and Western Europe. She is the author of The Women’s Movement Inside and Outside the State and Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage.