Victory for the Vote

Victory for the Vote
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Women’s Rights and the Continuing Fight for Equality An inspirational gift for women.  In her book  Victory for the Vote , Women’s history expert Doris Weatherford offers an engaging and detailed narrative history of women’s seven-decade fight for the vote, and the continuing current-day struggle for human rights and equality. Foreword by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.   Victory for the Vote  puts the fight for suffrage into contemporary context by discussing key challenges for women in the decades that followed 1920, such as reproductive rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and political power. Celebrate the Centennial of women’s right to vote in the U.S.   Victory for the Vote  is an expansion and update of Doris Weatherford’s  A History of the American Suffragist Movement , published in 1998 in honor of the 150th anniversary of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, considered to be the beginning of the women’s rights movement in the United States. Read Doris Weatherford’s  Victory for the Vote  and: Take pride in the struggles and accomplishments of strong womenUnderstand and appreciate the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the Nineteenth AmendmentCelebrate feminism and recognize the challenges that still remain on the road to human rights for all If you enjoyed books such as Maya Angelou’s  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ,  The Woman’s Hour ,  Rad Women Worldwide ,  Warriors Don’t Cry , or  The Book of Awesome Women ; you will want to read and be inspired by  Victory for the Vote .

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Doris Weatherford. Victory for the Vote

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Victory for the Vote

The Fight for Women’s Suffrage

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Although she had not intended to create this “furor,” Bloomer wore the style for “some six or eight years.” That she stuck with it longer than Stanton is probably due to the fact that the Bloomers moved from Seneca Falls to Iowa in 1853. Practicality always has priority over fashion in frontier situations, and it therefore was not surprising that among those Stanton listed as long-term bloomer wearers were “many farmers’ wives.”

Other women’s rights leaders who experimented with the costume included Lucy Stone, the Grimké sisters, and Susan B. Anthony. For the latter women, the change was an especially daring one from the modest Quaker dress of their youth, but for all women, wearing the new style meant inviting controversy and worse. Preachers, in Gerrit Smith’s words, ran “to the Bible, not to learn the truth, but to make the Bible the minister to folly” in preaching against the garment. Using scripture such as “male and female He created them,” clergymen argued that it was sinful for a woman to dress like a man. Any outing in the new clothes became a trial. “People would stare,” Stanton said. “Some men and women make rude remarks; boys follow in crowds, or shout from behind fences.”

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