The Rise of the New Woman
Subtitle: The Women's Movement in America, 1875-1930 (The American Ways Series)
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher; Ivan R. Dee
Published: June 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781566635011
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Women's studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; United States; History; Sociology; History: World; USA; United States - 20th Century; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Women's Studies - History; History / General; General; Feminism; Women's rights
Description: "In The Rise of the New Woman, Jean Matthews chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period of declining numbers and campaign failures to its final victory in the Nineteenth Amendment that brought women the vote.

In an engaging narrative, she recaptures the personalities and ideas that characterized the movement in these years, drawing deft portraits and analyzing the intellectual currents - in politics, the economy, sexuality, and social thoughts - that competed for women's commitment. And she shows how new leadership and new strategies at last brought success in the long struggle that had seen many feminist leaders grow old."--BOOK JACKET.