Picturing Political Power
Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Publication supported by the Neil Harris Endowment Fund
320 pages
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105 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 2020
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Setting the Standards
Chapter 2. Dominant Images of Gender and Power in Antebellum America
Chapter 3. Portraits as Politics
Chapter 4. A “Fine Looking Body of Women”: Female Political Leaders on the Rise
Chapter 5. Competing Visual Campaigns
Chapter 6. White Public Mothers and Militant Suffragists Win the Vote
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1. Setting the Standards
Chapter 2. Dominant Images of Gender and Power in Antebellum America
Chapter 3. Portraits as Politics
Chapter 4. A “Fine Looking Body of Women”: Female Political Leaders on the Rise
Chapter 5. Competing Visual Campaigns
Chapter 6. White Public Mothers and Militant Suffragists Win the Vote
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Former US senator Barbara Mikulski, longest-serving woman in congressional history
“An in-depth look at how American suffragists fought to control their own image in the long battle for the vote and political representation. Long before the pantsuit, American women were fighting to tell their story, their way. Lange’s book is a story of historical courage whose ramifications still echo today.”
Kate Clarke LeMay, National Portrait Gallery
“In this richly researched and lavishly illustrated book, Lange argues that the American suffragists were successful in their battle for the vote in part because they used images to transform the public’s notion of political womanhood. She takes special care to address how women of color developed activist visual campaigns. Linking power with visibility and weaving history with visual culture, Lange narrates a fascinating take on the history of the Nineteenth Amendment.”
Joshua Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New York
“Picturing Political Power cogently delineates the intrinsic role of visual media in the struggle for women’s rights. Lange shows how we cannot truly grasp the causes of and conflicts over women’s suffrage without addressing its visual record. Sensitive to gender, class, and race, this groundbreaking book demonstrates the importance of rigorous engagement with visual evidence to uncover new insights about the past.”
Forbes
“...a digital collection of historical portraits and artifacts that tells a more inclusive story of the women’s suffrage movement with a spotlight on the less familiar stories of Black women’s activism throughout this period.”
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