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Author:

Schuyler, Lorraine Gates.

Title:

The weight of their votes : southern women and political leverage in the 1920s / Lorraine Gates Schuyler.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xiii, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Women in politics--Southern States--History--20th century.
Women--History--Southern States--History--20th century.
Political participation--Southern States--History--20th century.
Voting--Southern States--History--20th century.
Southern States--Politics and government--20th century.
Sexism in political culture--Southern States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.

Contents:

Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.

ISBN:

9780807857762 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807857769 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807830666 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807830666 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006017813

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)