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Chargement... Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland (édition 2004)par Linda J. Lumsden
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Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910's and a fearless crusader for women's rights. Moving in radical circles, she agitated for social change in the prewar years, and she epitomized the independent New Woman of the time. Her death at age 30 while stumping for suffrage in California in 1916 made her the sole martyr of the American suffrage movement. Her death helped inspire two years of militant protests by the National Woman's Party, including the picketing of the White House, Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book, although a university press publication, is extremely readable and delves into Inez's foiables and failures as well as her success on the speaking circuit for suffrage. It describes how difficult it was for Inez to be the face of the movement because of her beauty, but conversely points out that she would not have been a success without it. This double edge sword became her undoing during the Suffrage Special tour around the western states, where Inez asked women that already had the vote to help in the struggle for a national amendment.
Lumsden does a wonderful job of not succumbing to the temptation to make Inez the martyr into Inez the saint. I highly recommend this book for anyone that thought they knew about the suffrage movement. ( )