Front pages, front lines : media and the fight for women's suffrage / edited by Linda Steiner, Carolyn Kitch, and Brooke Kroeger. - Urbana, Illinois : University of Illinois Press, [2020] - viii, 254 pages ; illustrations : 23 cm. - The History of Communication. . - History of communication. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historiography: women's suffrage and the media / Linda J. Lumsden -- Nineteenth-century suffrage journals: inventing and defending new women / Linda Steiner -- The Woman's Exponent: a Utah case study in the campaign for women's suffrage / Sherilyn Cox Bennion -- Writing and "righting": African American women seek the vote / Robin Mazyck Sundaramoorthy and Jinx Coleman Broussard -- Woman suffrage and the new negro in the black public sphere / Jane Rhodes -- Differently radical: suffrage issues and feminist ideas in The Crisis and The Masses / Linda M. Grasso -- A countermovement on the verge of defeat: antisuffragist arguments in 1917 press coverage / Teri Finneman -- Discourses of race and masculinity in the Nashville Press: "A white man's country and the white man's government"? / Jane Marcellus -- The facilitators: elites in the victory of the women's suffrage movement / Brooke Kroeger -- After suffrage: an uncharted path / Maurine Beasley -- Memory, interrupted: a century of remembering and forgetting the story of women's suffrage / Carolyn Kitch -- Afterword: women's suffrage, the press, and the enduring problem of white supremacy / Kathy Roberts Forde.

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1900-1999


Press--United States--20th century.
Suffrage--United States--20th century.
Women Suffrage.

PN4888 .W65 / F766 2020