Updates
Book: Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis
Have some time to read this summer? Learn about the connection between suffrage and abolition, and much more in “Women, Race, & Class”: “A powerful study of the women’s liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.”
Podcast series: Encyclopedia Womannica, from Wonder Media Network
“Thinking back to our history classes growing up, we had one question: Where the ladies at? Enter, Encyclopedia Womannica. In just 5 minutes a day, learn about different incredible women from throughout history.”
Suffrage in Rhode Island: A Lippitt Family Perspective
Students in a Brown University American Studies course have collaborated with Providence’s Lippitt House Museum to create a new website, “Suffrage in Rhode Island: A Lippitt Family Perspective.” The website includes an interactive timeline about the complicated...
Article: The Very Queer History of the Suffrage Movement
Wendy Rouse, associate professor of history at San Jose State University, describes how suffragists defied the gendered conventions of their day, and how historians often gloss over the existence of queer suffragists.