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rachelwalexander's review
5.0
This was way more informative than any U.S. history class I ever took about suffrage and managed to beautifully walk the line of not erasing the racism, in-fighting, disagreements and diversity within the movement without devaluing the movement as a whole. A really nice mix highlighting prominent activists, less-known figures, indigenous matrilineal practices, the intersections between suffrage and abolitionist groups and the many women of color involved in the movement.
shelleyanderson4127's review
4.0
This is a comics anthology featuring the work of 31 women artists. It's a fascinating graphic account of how US women won the right to vote. Specifically, white American women, as the book makes clear. The many roles of African American women (like Francis Harper and Sarah Parker Remond) and Native women (e.g., Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin and are included in the fight to pass the 19th Amendment, as are the struggles of Asian American women and Puerto Rican women (the latter can vote in primaries, but still not in Presidential elections, despite the struggles of women like Ana du Duprey and Juana Colon). There is also a section on queer women and their 'romantic friendships' in the suffrage movement, like the couple Anna Howard Shaw and Lucy Anthony and countless others). All these stories, and the lives of the women and girls behind them, need to be better known.
This book covers the basic story of women's suffrage in the US in an entertaining form. It doesn't shy away from the racism of many early suffragists leaders and points to strong connection between the abolitionist movement and early feminism (it is very interesting to see how influential the great Black statesman Frederick Douglass was in the campaign for women's right to vote. It is also fascinating to learn how leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucrecia Mott, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Harriet Converse were impressed and inspired by the political and religious roles of women in the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Reading it makes you want to learn more.
This book covers the basic story of women's suffrage in the US in an entertaining form. It doesn't shy away from the racism of many early suffragists leaders and points to strong connection between the abolitionist movement and early feminism (it is very interesting to see how influential the great Black statesman Frederick Douglass was in the campaign for women's right to vote. It is also fascinating to learn how leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucrecia Mott, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Harriet Converse were impressed and inspired by the political and religious roles of women in the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Reading it makes you want to learn more.
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