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978-1-4262-2065-4 HC I $50.00 US/$59.00 CANthe first suffragist march on
Washington, D.C., in 1913,
ignoring the rules dictating that
black women march in the back.
Doris Weatherford’s Winning the
Vote and Beyond (Mar. 2020)
updates her A History of the
American Suffragist Movement, orig-
inally published in 1998 by the
academic press ABC-CLIO, with
a foreword by Geraldine Ferraro.
Miami indie Mango Publishing
will release Winning the Vote with a
new foreword by Nancy Pelosi and
new sections focused on women of
color as well as challenges to reproductive rights and the
ongoing fight for the Equal Rights Amendment.
“The overall message is how politically astute these women
have been and how active they were,” Weatherford says, coun-
tering the common misperception of the movement as little
more than a few names and some white dresses. Rather, she
adds, suffragists “were really sophisticated politicians, and this
was a hard, hard fight.”Seeds of Change
Weatherford’s book traces the philosophical roots of the Seneca
Falls convention to the 17th century and women who defied
the dominant religious leadership in the nascent American
colonies. Kendall, in Amazons, goes back even further, depicting
women advocating for their rights beginning in Sumer in 3000
BCE. A number of forthcoming titles likewise expand the focus
beyond the usual narrative to look at strides made incrementally
across the U.S., and outside of it.
British publisher Pen and Sword Books is releasing several
titles on the fight for women’s voting rights on that side of the
Atlantic, a battle that both paved the way for and paralleled
that of women in the United States. September brings Women’s
Suffrage in Scotland by Carole O’Connor, and in December,
Suffragettes of Kent by Jennifer Godfrey and Suffragette Planners
and Plotters by Kathryn Atherton. The latter looks at the
tumultuous relationship between two couples who led the
militant movement: the Pankhursts, who remain well-known
for their activism, and the Pethick-Lawrences, whose contribu-
tions have been largely forgotten.
In the U.S., before women’s suffrage became the law of the
land, many women were able to cast votes in western territories
and states. No Place for a Woman (TwoDot, Mar. 2020) by Chris
continued on p. 25