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Book Synopsis Includes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This revised and expanded edition offers new material on the international influences for suffrage, race and racism, and regional issues that affected the suffrage movement and the struggles many women faced trying to vote -- even after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. One Woman, One Vote was first published by NewSage Press in 1975 and is the companion book to the PBS American Experience documentary by the same name. This book continues to be the most comprehensive collection of writings -- contemporary and historical -- on the woman suffrage movement in America. The PBS documentary, produced by the Educational Film Center, has also been updated with an intro by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. The 23 essays in the Second Edition focus on aspects of the suffrage movement in greater depth with an extensive opening chapter on the overall suffrage movement, How Woman Won. Many of these prominent contemporary scholars challenge widely accepted traditional theories and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment. Together, they tell the fascinating story of woman's suffrage from the failure of the Constitution to enfranchise women to the political engagement of women after 1920. The authors of the essays are scholars in the fields of History, American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, and they help readers "rediscover" the suffrage movement through their engaging writing, offering intriguing and often contradictory interpretations of historical accounts. The editor, Marjorie J. Spruill, Ph.D., is a leading authority in women's and Southern history, and has authored numerous books and essays related to woman suffrage and women's fight for equality. She speaks internationally on these topics and is well respected among historians. Her most recent book, Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics has been praised in numerous reviews, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Nation, and more. New material includes an insightful essay by Spruill on racism in the movement, "The Inhospitable South and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage." She describes the long and often frustrating effort beginning in the 1890s by northern and southern suffragists to bring the Southern states into the movement--an effort thwarted by widespread ideas about white supremacy and states' rights among white Southerners who viewed the movement as an unwelcome offshoot of the antislavery movement. Readers of One Woman, One Vote learn how the suffrage movement--from its beginning in 1848 to its conclusion in 1920, and beyond--changed over time in response to changes in American society and politics. In the Second Edition, two new chapters expand on international suffrage efforts as they relate to the U.S. Readers also learn of the growing diversity of the suffrage constituency in terms of region, religion, race, class, ethnicity, and even attitude, and that the suffrage story included both a record of harmony and cooperation but also discrimination and betrayal. For many women of color the struggle to get the vote did not end in 1920, but continued for the next 100 years--and continues today. Above all, Spruill emphasizes that the vote was not "given" to women when the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920: generations of suffragists labored long and hard to win the right to vote in the United States. Review Quotes One Woman, One Vote has been indispensable to me as I've worked to learn so much of the history that I'd not been taught about the nation and its centuries-long struggle toward full enfranchisement. --Rebecca Traister, Author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger--Rebecca Traister "Author, Good and Mad" The fight for woman suffrage got under way in 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, but it took another 72 years to win the right to vote with ratification of the 19th Amendment. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of that event, Spruill, an associate professor of history at the Univ. of Southern Mississippi, has gathered 19 thoughtful essays to tell the story of the women and the strategies that won the vote, put in context by her particularly cogent introduction. Linda K. Kerber examines the Constitution's implicit exclusion of women, explaining why suffragists saw the need for a constitutional amendment. Alice S. Rossi's classic essay A Feminist Friendship enlivens the 51-year link between Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Andrea Moore Kerr looks at a splinter group of suffragists who actively campaigned to prevent newly freed black men from getting the vote before women, particularly ironic for a movement that had its roots in the abolition movement, while Rosalyn Terborg-Penn surveys the contributions of African American women. Beverly Beeton details progress in the West, beginning with Wyoming's enfranchisement of women in 1869. And Armageddon in Tennessee by Anastasia Sims relates the drama that unfolded when the amendment passed the Tennessee legislature by a single vote cast by a 24-year-old whose mother had adjured him to be a good boy and vote for suffrage. Photos not seen by PW. / Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Composed of well-written, scholarly essays selected and introduced by historian [Marjorie Spruill, this work is the companion piece to a PBS special commemorating the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. It analyzes both positive and negative aspects of the long, complex struggle for suffrage.The writers emphasize the economic, racial, and cultural divisions that split the movement repeatedly. While extolling the courage of Susan B. Anthony, the pragmatism of Carrie Catt and Jane Addams, the militancy of Alice Paul, and the working-class sensibilities of Harriet Stanton Blatch, they also decry the pandering to racist elements that virtually excluded black women from the national movement, the embarrassments of the Kansas campaign and the Woodhull scandal, and the nativist bigotry that colored the last years of the suffrage fight. This excellent, affordable book should be part of every public and academic library. Rose Cichy, Osterhout Free Lib., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. / Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.--Rose Chichy "Library Journal" Marjorie Spruill's new edition of One Woman, One Vote is a welcome and timely addition to the expanding body of literature on women's gradual political empowerment. At a time when women have expanded their political influence, when the U.S. not only has its first and long overdue female vice president, Kamala Harris, when the organizing efforts of women of color, especially in Georgia, have shifted the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, and President Joseph R. Biden has appointed the first female-majority Cabinet in history, it's only appropriate that we have this updated re-examination of how we got here, edited by Dr. Spruill with the critical contributions of dozens of other scholars of the domestic and international woman's movement.--Adele Logan Alexander "Historian and Author of Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist's Story from the Jim Crow South" Students, scholars, and lay readers alike will be grateful for the clarity with which this book tells the story of the woman suffrage movement in the United States. An important book and a useful one. --Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, State University of New York, Binghamton--Kathryn Kish Sklar "Professor of History Emerita" Suffragists were the voting rights activists of their day. This revised and expanded edition of One Woman, One Vote tells the story of that hard-fought victory, warts and all. At a moment when questions of gender, race, and citizenship are center stage once again, the history of the women's suffrage movement remains timely and relevant--and a really good read.--Susan Ware "Historian and Author of Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Rich to Vote" The study of the woman suffrage movement has flourished since the first edition of the anthology One Woman, One Vote appeared during the celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment's 75th anniversary. Marjorie Spruill's expanded second edition, published as part of the commemoration of the amendment's Centennial, is a deeply satisfying and essential update, attending as it does to the campaign in the South, the international context, and the first hundred years of women voting. As with the first edition, the suffrage story told here will be compelling for both students and general readers.--Louise W. Knight "Historian and Author of Jane Addams: Spirit in Action"

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