Alice Paul
Subtitle: equality for women
By: Christine Lunardini
Series: Lives of American women; Lives of American women
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780813347615
Subjects: Suffragists; Women's rights; Suffrage; History; Biography; Women
Description: "Alice Paul: Equality for Women shows the dominant and unwavering role Paul played in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting the vote to American women. The dramatic details of Paul's imprisonment and solitary confinement, hunger strike, and force-feeding at the hands of the U.S. government illustrate her fierce devotion to the cause she spent her life promoting. Placed in the context of the first half of the twentieth century, Paul's story also touches on issues of progressivism and labor reform, race and class, World War I patriotism and America's emerging role as a global power, women's activism in the political sphere, and the global struggle for women's rights."--Book cover [p. 4]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: Becoming Alice Paul; title: History, politics, and strategy; title: Where are all the people; title: A splendid year and a growing rivalry; title: Taking on the Democrats; title: A new plan, a new party, and old fight; title: The war against women; title: Victory and discord; title: The quest for equality for women; title: Epilogue.