Title: How the vote was won : woman suffrage in the western United States, 1868-1914 /
Authors: Mead, Rebecca J.
Publisher: New York University Press,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Women Suffrage West (U.S.) History.
Abstract: "In this new study, Rebecca J. Mead shows that western suffrage came about as the result of the unsettled state of regional politics, the complex nature of western race relations, broad alliances between suffragists and farmer-labor-progressive reformers, and sophisticated activism by western women. She highlights suffrage racism and elitism as major problems for the movement, and places special emphasis on the political adaptability of western suffragists whose improvisational tactics earned them progress."
Contents: Context of the western woman suffrage movement -- Early western suffragists as organic intellectuals -- Reconstruction, woman suffrage, and territorial politics in the West -- Suffrage and populism in the Silver State of Colorado -- California, woman suffrage, and the critical election of 1896 -- Woman suffrage and progressivism in the Pacific Northwest -- Western zephyr and the 1911 California campaign -- The West and the modern suffrage movement.