Gilded Suffragists : The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote

Johanna Neuman

ISBN 10: 1479837067 / ISBN 13: 9781479837069

Edité par New York University Press Sep 2017, 2017

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• Titre: Gilded Suffragists : The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote
• Éditeur: New York University Press Sep 2017
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1479837067
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781479837069
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 0 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 0 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 499 grammes

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New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like--carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence of the French couture clothes, and they leveraged their social celebrity for political power, turning women's right to vote into a fashionable cause.

Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites "trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris," these gilded suffragists were at the epicenter of the great reforms known collectively as the Progressive Era. From championing education for women, to pursuing careers, and advocating for the end of marriage, these women were engaged with the swirl of change that swept through the streets of New York City.

Johanna Neuman restores these women to their rightful place in the story of women's suffrage. Understanding the need for popular approval for any social change, these socialites used their wealth, power, social connections and style to excite mainstream interest and to diffuse resistance to the cause. In the end, as Neuman says, when change was in the air, these women helped push women's suffrage over the finish line.

À propos de l?auteur

Johanna Neuman is a writer, historian and scholar in residence at American University in Washington, D.C. An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she covered the White House, the State Department and Congress for the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.