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Recasting the Vote - by Cathleen D Cahill (Paperback)

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  • We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
  • About the Author: Cathleen D. Cahill is associate professor of history at Penn State University and the author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933, winner of the 2011 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award and finalist for the 2012 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association.
  • 376 Pages
  • Social Science, Women's Studies

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"In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-éSa), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hau Lee, and Adelina 'Nina' Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment"--



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We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote until they won it with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. But the fight for women's voting rights extended far beyond these familiar scenes. From social clubs in New York's Chinatown to conferences for Native American rights, and in African American newspapers and pamphlets demanding equality for Spanish-speaking New Mexicans, a diverse cadre of extraordinary women struggled to build a movement that would truly include all women, regardless of race or national origin. In Recasting the Vote, Cathleen D. Cahill tells the powerful stories of a multiracial group of activists who propelled the national suffrage movement toward a more inclusive vision of equal rights. Cahill reveals a new cast of heroines largely ignored in earlier suffrage histories: Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Carrie Williams Clifford, Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, and Adelina "Nina" Luna Otero-Warren. With these feminists of color in the foreground, Cahill recasts the suffrage movement as an unfinished struggle that extended beyond the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

As we celebrate the centennial of a great triumph for the women's movement, Cahill's powerful history reminds us of the work that remains.



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"Recasting the Vote is an essential read for specialists in the field and newcomers alike. . . . a field-changing history."--Southwestern Historical Quarterly



"Recasting the Vote tells the story of women's suffrage with the women of today in mind. Through probing research and vivid storytelling, Cathleen Cahill unearths how women of color charted their own routes to voting rights, transforming a movement. Their lives speak to our own time through timely lessons about how racism and sexism can undercut women's political power. This is the book we have long been waiting for and that we need." -- Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted Upon Equality for All



"A much-needed perspective on the efforts to gain full suffrage for American women at the start of the 20th century. . . . An impressive corrective for those so long left out of this history."--CHOICE



"Cahill has done a remarkable job of not only expanding the suffrage narrative, but successfully reorienting it . . . [this is] a text with the power to fundamentally change popular perspectives of the suffrage movement."--North Carolina Historical Review



"Cathleen D. Cahill's narrative-supplanting book . . . challenges the reductive, whitewashed accounts of how the 19th amendment was ratcheted through the political process. . . . Cahill's text doesn't merely add minority figures to the story of women's enfranchisement, it proves it is impossible to tell the story without them."--Tribal College Journal



"Extraordinarily well-conceived and deeply researched. . . . [T]his is the first book to weave together the complicated history of four important groups of women of color, thereby radically changing the way historians understand the movement for women's political enfranchisement. . . . It takes skill, persistence, sensitivity, and a staggering commitment to write a book such as this."--New Mexico Historical Review



"This book has set the bar for understanding the historical implications of the suffrage movement through the eyes of women of color in early twentieth-century America. . . . [A]n exquisite monograph."--Journal of American Ethnic History



"This is a vital and timely corrective. Recasting the Vote is not merely an additive project. These women's stories fundamentally rewrite the traditional suffrage narrative, move us beyond the black/white binary, and show how race and sex have always intertwined in the long and ongoing struggle for the vote." -- Kimberly Hamlin, author of Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener



"This spirited history situates the campaign for female suffrage within the broader narrative of civil rights. . . . Cahill's widened focus links the battle for enfranchisement to currents of exclusion and empowerment that continue to shape the vote today."--New Yorker



"Written to coincide with the centennial of the 19th Amendment, this important book reminds us that the familiar stories of women's suffrage are woefully incomplete. . . . An essential work; highly recommended for scholars of the period and general readers interested in women's history."--Library Journal




About the Author



Cathleen D. Cahill is associate professor of history at Penn State University and the author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933, winner of the 2011 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award and finalist for the 2012 David J. Weber-Clements Prize, Western History Association.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.2 Inches (H) x 7.8 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.1 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 376
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Women's Studies
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Cathleen D Cahill
Language: English
Street Date: August 1, 2021
TCIN: 89260050
UPC: 9781469666129
Item Number (DPCI): 247-25-9063
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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