The suffragents
Subtitle: how women used men to get the vote
By: Brooke Kroeger
Series: Excelsior editions; Excelsior editions
Publisher: State University of New York Press; Excelsior Editions
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781438466309; 9781438466293
Subjects: Women; Suffrage; Men's League for Woman Suffrage (New York, N.Y.); History
Description: "The Suffragents is the untold story of how some of New York's most powerful men formed the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, which grew between 1909 and 1917 from 150 founding members into a force of thousands across thirty-five states. Brooke Kroeger explores the formation of the League and the men who instigated it to involve themselves with the suffrage campaign, what they did at the behest of the movement's female leadership and why. She details the National American Woman Suffrage Association's strategic decision to accept their organized help and then to deploy these influential new allies as suffrage foot soldiers, a role they accepted with uncommon grace"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "If men should be wanted" : 1907-1908; title: "The favor of such men" : 1909; title: "What can we do to persuade you?" : 1910; title: "Jeers and abuse" : 1911; title: "The change in public sentiment is remarkable" : 1912; title: "Gettes and gists" : 1913; title: "This whole feminist front" : 1914; title: "Should women vote in New York?" : 1915; title: "It may move like a glacier, but..." : 1916; title: "Mr. President, How long must women wait for liberty?" : 1917; title: A coda : "the least tribute we can pay them" : 1918-1920.