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Suffragists recognized that the media played an essential role in the women's suffrage movement and the public's understanding of it. From parades to going to jail for voting, activists played to the mass media of their day. They also created an energetic niche media of suffragist journalism and publications. This collection offers new research on media issues related to the women's suffrage movement. Contributors incorporate media theory, historiography, and innovative approaches to social movements while discussing the vexed relationship between the media and debates over suffrage. Aiming to correct past oversights, the essays explore overlooked topics such as coverage by African American and Mormon-oriented media, media portrayals of black women in the movement, suffragist rhetorical strategies, elites within the movement, suffrage as part of broader campaigns for social transformation, and the influence views of white masculinity had on press coverage.
Contributors: Maurine H. Beasley, Sherilyn Cox Bennion, Jinx C. Broussard, Teri Finneman, Kathy Roberts Forde, Linda M. Grasso, Carolyn Kitch, Brooke Kroeger, Linda J. Lumsden, Jane Marcellus, Jane Rhodes, Linda Steiner, and Robin Sundaramoorthy
Contents
Back coverTitle PageCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Historiography: Women's Suffrage and the Media2. Nineteenth-Century Suffrage Journals: Inventing and Defending New Women3. The Woman's Exponent: A Utah Case Study in the Campaign for Women's Suffrage4. Writing and "Righting": African American Women Seek the Vote5. Woman Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere6. Differently Radical: Suffrage Issues and Feminist Ideas in The Crisis and The Masses7. A Countermovement on the Verge of Defeat: Antisuffragist Arguments in 1917 Press Coverage8. Discourses of Race and Masculinity in the Nashville Press:"A White Man's Country and a White Man9. The Facilitators: Elites in the Victory of the Women's Suffrage Movement10. After Suffrage: An Uncharted Path11. Memory, Interrupted: A Century of Remembering and Forgetting the Story of Women's SuffrageAfterword: Women's Suffrage, the Press, and the Enduring Problem of White SupremacyAbout the ContributorsIndexBack cover
