Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women

by Margaret Finnegan

Book Overview

Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern."

Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231107390
• ISBN13: 9780231107396
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher