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Following on her history of the women's movement in America that took the story to 1876, Jean Matthews's new book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period of declining numbers and campaign failures to its final victory in the Nineteenth Amendment that brought women the vote. Ms. Matthews's engaging narrative recaptures the personalities and ideas that characterized the movement in these years. She draws deft portraits and analyzes the intellectual currents—in politics, the economy, sexuality, and social thought—that competed for women's commitment. And she shows how new leadership and new strategies at last brought success in the long struggle during
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Following on her history of the women's movement in America that took the story to 1876, Jean Matthews's new book chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period of declining numbers and campaign failures to its final victory in the Nineteenth Amendment that brought women the vote. Ms. Matthews's engaging narrative recaptures the personalities and ideas that characterized the movement in these years. She draws deft portraits and analyzes the intellectual currents—in politics, the economy, sexuality, and social thought—that competed for women's commitment. And she shows how new leadership and new strategies at last brought success in the long struggle during which many feminist leaders had grown old. The Rise of the New Woman emphasizes the historical contexts, including progressivism, in which the women's movement operated; the disputes and tensions within the movement itself; and the perennial question of who was to be included and excluded in the quest for women's rights. It also considers the often baffling aftereffects of the 1920 constitutional victory, when women found themselves wondering what to do next. With 24 black-and-white illustrations. American Ways Series. "Lively and informative."—Kirkus Reviews "Although Matthews frequently paints her historical overview in broad strokes, she nonetheless excels at filling in a fascinating background, giving new insights on lesser-known but equally influential people, facts, and situations."—Booklist

Editorial Reviews

American Historical Review
…Cleverly conceived, unpretentious in tone, and engaging in style…. Her book's success rests on its concision, cogency, verve, and pace.
American Studies
…An excellent synthesis of the past two decades of scholarship in the social and cultural histories of American women.
— Lois Palken Rudnick, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Book Review Digest
It is cleverly conceived, unpretentious in tone, and engaging in style.
Booklist
[An] incisive look at a critical time in American history.
— Donna Seaman
H-Net
…Engagingly written…. Appealing and informative for general audiences, useful and accessible for students, and...enjoyable...for scholars in the field.
H-Net Reviews
…Engagingly written…. Appealing and informative for general audiences, useful and accessible for students, and...enjoyable...for scholars in the field.
H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
…Engagingly written…. Appealing and informative for general audiences, useful and accessible for students, and...enjoyable...for scholars in the field.
The Historian
Thoroughly grounded.
— Virginia R. Boynton
From The Critics
...Matthews...excels at filling in a fascinating background, giving new insights on lesser-known but equally influential people, facts, and situations.
—BOOKLIST
American Historical Review
...Cleverly conceived, unpretentious in tone, and engaging in style.... Her book's success rests on its concision, cogency, verve, and pace.
Virginia R. Boynton
"Thoroughly grounded."
—The Historian
Publishers Weekly
The quest for women's rights has been one of America's defining social movements. In this concise, accessible and well-researched history, Matthews (Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828-1876) details how that movement came about and examines its peaks and pitfalls. Chief among the former, Matthews elucidates, was the burst of educational possibilities for women post-Civil War and concomitant options for careers outside the home. Enfranchisement did not, however, immediately engender the revolutionary social change its promulgators had envisioned. Matthews charts the internecine fights between those consumed by the passion for the vote, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and those whose concerns were more expansive, such as Frances Willard, founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, arguably the most influential political and social organization of its era, encompassing concerns about domestic violence and poverty as well as the quest for women's equity inside and outside the home. She illuminates other battles by and between early feminists, including abolition, the 15th Amendment (which effectively delayed women's enfranchisement for another 50 years), divorce, birth control, worker's rights and class conflict. Matthews infuses her history with quotes and anecdotes that serve to bring the era more alive, but her desire for concision sometimes abbreviates more complex issues, like the effects of the Comstock laws and the struggle for viable birth control. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the status of American women changed dramatically. Not only had they gained new opportunities in higher education and the professions, but greater numbers also entered the workforce and the trade union movement; to boot, their political power increased through the work of women's clubs and organizations and a reinvigorated and ultimately successful women's suffrage movement. Such changes were symbolized by the image of the "New Woman" that emerged. This readable overview of women's history from 1875 to 1930 traces the development and eventual success of the women's suffrage movement, from its low tide in the 1870s through its triumph, picking up where Matthews's much-praised Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828-1876 left off. Suitable as an introductory text, this work includes a bibliography of secondary sources but no footnotes. A good acquisition for undergraduate collections, even those that already own Flexner's classic Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States.-Theresa McDevitt, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
Picking up where Women’s Struggle for Equality (1990) left off, Matthews (History Emeritus/Univ. of Western Ontario) succinctly chronicles the accelerating half-century of changes in women’s lives and society that helped feminists win them the right to vote in 1920. More intent on delivering the facts than speculating on the consequences of actions and personalities, the author begins in the post-Civil War years, when women were able to move around more freely as cities grew, streets were lit, and public transportation was introduced. As more women graduated from high school, they took advantage of jobs offered by the new industrial economy that took them out of the house and off the farm. More ambitious, usually upper-class women also began attending college in great numbers, with many intending to become scientists or doctors. The term "New Woman" seems to have been first coined around 1894, but the phenomenon was already familiar; Matthews suggests that its avatars were the popular magazine illustrations of "the Gibson Girl," whose plain dark skirt and business-like white shirt became the uniform of these young women. The feminist movement, however, was divided: some thought they should not press for suffrage when the franchise was finally being extended to black men, others felt votes for women were more important; some wanted to include black women, others did not want to alienate the white South; the goals of working-class women differed from those of the upper-class leaders; some advocated sexual freedom, while others upheld conventional morality. Matthews meticulously details these tensions, which continued right up to the gaining of the vote. In separate chapters, she alsodescribes the evolution of intellectual attitudes toward women as the old Biblical interpretations were questioned, the debates about female sexuality that led to changes in social behavior, and the effects of WWI, which disrupted the momentum that had been building as more states gave women the vote and public demonstrations in favor of female suffrage became larger and more frequent. Lively and informative.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781566635011
  • Publisher: Dee, Ivan R. Publisher
  • Publication date: 7/15/2004
  • Pages: 224
  • Sales rank: 646,086
  • Series: American Ways Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.38 (w) x 8.36 (h) x 0.67 (d)

Meet the Author

Jean Matthews is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, and author of Toward a New Society and Women's Struggle for Equality, a history of the women's movement from 1828 to 1876, also in the American Ways Series. She lives in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Acknowledgements ix Part 2 THE WOMAN'S ERA 3 Chapter 3 The "restlessness" of women. "Visible" women and the city. Women on campus. Organized womanhood. Varieties of religious experience. Purifying society—the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The suffrage movement at end of century. Women and Columbian Expo Part 4 THE NEW WOMAN AND THE NEW POLITICS 36 Chapter 5 The "New Woman" as a cultural type. Education and "race suicide." The marginality of the professional woman. White-collar working girls and "bachelor women." Women as the advance guard of the welfare state. Motherhood triumphant and dependent. Part 6 THINKING ABUOT THE WOMAN QUESTION 67 Chapter 7 The problem of the universal dominance of men. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage challenge the churches and the Bible. Darwinism and the evolutionary paradigm. The "reproductive sacrifice" and eugenics. Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the dysfun Part 8 FEMINISM AND THE PROBLEM OF SEX 96 Chapter 9 Marriage and careers. The emergence of "feminism." Sexuality, intimacy, and remodeling relations between the sexes. New patterns of heterosexual socialbility and companionship. Elsie Clew Parsons and breaking down conventions. Margaret Sanger and the birt Part 10 WAR AND VICTORY 126 Chapter 11 The suffrage movement gains momentum. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Equality League. The impact of English militancy and new tactics. Successful campaigns in California and New York. The "antis." Alice Paul and the "Anthony Amendment." Carrie Chapman Cat Part 12 AFTER THE VOTE 158 Chapter 13 What next? Initial successes. Backlash and stalling of the social agenda. Alice Paul and the ERA. The meaning of equality. Postmortems on feminism. Disillusions. The post-vote gender settlement. Part 14 THE FATE OF THE ERA 184 Part 15 A Note on Sources 187 Part 16 Index 205

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