Woman’s Suffrage Patricia Houchens

Bausum, Ann Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman’s Right to Vote. (National Geographic Society 2004) Tells how half the American population earned voting and civil rights. It continues the story with anecdotes about the struggle and women’s votes counting today. Includes Reading level suitable for youth grades 6-8.

Brill, Marlene Targ Let Women Vote (Millbrook Press, 1995) Traces the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, with excerpts from primary sources.Shows the hard work needed to secure the vote for women.Reading level suitable for youth grades 6-8.

Brockett, Linus PierpontWoman: Her Rights, Wrongs, Privileges, and Responsibilities(Ayer Publishing, 1970)If,” in addition to the physical suffering of bearing children, and the whole responsibility of their care and education in early years, the wife undertakes the careful and economical application of the husband's earnings to the general comfort of the family ; she takes not only her fair share, but usually the larger share, of the bodily and mental exertion required by their joint existence.” interests you, you will love this one.

Harding, Andrea Feminism: opposing viewpoints (Greenhaven Press, 1986) Chronicles the feminist issues from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and including debates on such topics as women and the vote, the differences between men and women, and the future of feminism.

Lunardini, Christine A.Women’s Rights (Oryx Press 1996) A well documented timeline of the social struggle for equal rights and economic opportunity through the public opinion and government policy.

MacBain-Stephens, JenniferWOMEN’S SUFFRAGE Giving the Right to Vote to All Americans. (The Rosen Publishing Group Inc. 2006)Here primary sources are referenced to trace the struggles, conventions, and campaigns for the suffrage movement through work and determination of leaders in the cause such as Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Reading level suitable for youth grades 6-8.

Nunes, Maxine and White, Deanna The Lace Ghetto Volume 3 of New Woman Series. (New Press 1972-Original from the University of California)Male philosophers and writers comment on the place of women in the formation of public policy and social change.

Rau, Dana Meachen We the People Great Women of the Suffrage Movement(Compass Point Books 2005) An easy to understand account of the political and social struggle for the vote.Reading level suitable for youth grades 8-12.

Sagan,Miriam Women's suffrage World History Series (Lucent Books, 1995) Makes connections between other reform movements and the work to gain voting rights for women.Reading level suitable for youth grades 6-8.

Scott,Anne Firor and Scott, Andrew MacKayHalf the people The Fight for Woman Suffrage (Illini Books edition 1982) Begins with our first question of a woman’s vote in the colonial Maryland Assembly in 1647.Contains many primary source quotes from letters and diaries. Takes the social and political struggle to the participants.

Weatherford, Doris A History of the American Suffragist Movement ( ABC-ClIO 1998) Begins with a contrast of the matrilineal society of some of the New World’s first people to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.Able readers in middle school can understand my well-worn copy.

Wright, Almroth E. Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage (1913 out of print but available at Project Gutenberg) Shows how a scientist who could apply logic to the development of vaccines and medical protocols still used today could NOT apply that same logic to the consent of the governed.Indicates the prevailing point of view prior to 1919 and shows how far we have come.