Women's Suffrage
The following Web sites and citations have information about the women's suffrage movement in England and in the United States of America. A few of the sources have information about other countries.
Web Resources | Identifying Articles | Selected Articles and Books (citations) | Identifying Books
Most of the following links are to primary source documents about women's suffrage in the United States and England.
The British Suffragettes and Women and the Vote in Britain. Diane Atkinson, Historian. The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century.
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Interview with Diane Atkinson. She talks about how people felt about British suffragettes, particularly their behavior.
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920. American Memory.
- Photographs, programs, cartoons, etc.
Emancipation of Women: 1750-1920. (England). Spartacus Educational.
- Names, societies, political parties, and related suffrage topics.
History of Women's Suffrage in America. History Channel Exhibit.
- History, firsts (first woman to . . .), timeline.
How It Feels to Be the Husband of a Suffragette, by Him. American Memory. An easier way to read this article (confusingly presented here) is directly from Everybody's Magazine 30 Jan. 1914: 55-63. The author in the magazine is "ONE."
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This article is a riot, and, it makes an excellent case for women getting the vote. The site, which has the text split up, has links to illustrations."Please Visualize the Gentleman 'occasionally explaining' to Grandmama" is an especially wonderful drawing (page 15).
The Men Behind the Women . . .. National Women's History Project.
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Short list of names of male suffragists, with comments.
One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview (1776-1923). Compiled by E. Susan Barber. National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Detailed outline of events. Identifies sources.
Taking a New Look--The Enduring Significance of the American Woman Suffrage Movement. Robert Cooney.
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Thoughtful essay about the importance of the woman suffrage movement.
This Shall Be the Land for Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860-1920. Women of the West Museum.
- Overall history and links for state by state (California, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) stories, including timelines.
Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921. American Memory.
- "167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign." Choose browse by "Title" to see the complete list. Some of the documents address women's suffrage around the world.
Women's Suffrage. TM & © 2005-1996 Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved.
- While this site is probably aimed at young K-12 students, it is a very nice compilation of information. Find out when women got the vote country by country (click on map image in "When Did Women Vote" section) and read a history of women's suffrage (Grolier's, and there is a very nice bibliography).
Women's Suffrage. (USA) Spartacus Educational.
- Overview of women's suffrage in the United States of America. Lots of internal links with more information about the named person or event. Footnotes. List of names.
Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment. National Archives.
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This page has links to nine primary sources. Documents are described and put in context.
Use the following Databases to identify articles on women's suffrage.
Academic Search Premier.
- Search terms: Women -- Suffrage; Women's rights; Suffragists. Also look up by geographic terms (if need to narrow). Searching for "suffrage" or "voting" alone brings up rights of minorities and others to vote--all legitimate concerns, but these terms without modification bring up a lot of articles that are not related to women's suffrage per se.
America: History & Life.
- Search terms: Women; Suffrage; Women's Movement. Geographic area (e.g., Colorado) can narrow search.
Historical Abstracts.
- Search terms: Women; Suffrage; Suffrage Movement; Women's Movement. Geographic area (e.g., Great Britain) can narrow search.
JSTOR.
- All full text. Search: women and suffrage (over 10,900 entries when searching all journals). "Women's suffrage" as an exact phrase identifies over 2,200 articles in all journals. Some of the articles are book reviews. Limit "women's suffrage" as an exact phrase to articles and find just over 1,100 articles. Limit by subject area (e.g., History for just over 320 articles) or exact title of journal(s) if you wish. Also limit by the specific area of interest. For example, add United States, England, [country of interest], or a topic: behaviour, suffragettes, anti-suffragists, etc. To identify contemporary articles, narrow the search to These Dates: 1800-1920 (or another appropriate range of years). Contemporary sources are particularly interesting and should be used whenever possible when doing historical research.
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service).
- Search: Women -- Voting . Also, Women in Politics and Women -- Equal Rights. This index also identifies Web sites, books, and government documents.
Project MUSE.
- All full text. Search: Women--suffrage; affiliated topics are: Women's rights and Women in politics.
Social Science Abstracts.
- Search: Women--Suffrage. Few articles identified here, but they look of interest.
Web of Science.
- Do a quick search or topic search for: women's suffrage. Because it is doing a keyword search, not all of the articles are directly about women's suffrage per se, but observed articles provide some valuable context.
The following are a few articles and books about women's suffrage and related topics. It is not comprehensive! Most of the sources listed date from 1992-1997, but there are a few newer books and a couple contemporary articles as examples. See identifying articles and identifying books for where and what terms to search to identify additional resources.
Adare, Sierra. "Wyoming's Women Got the Vote First--Way Back in 1869, Soon After the New Territory was Formed." Wild West 10.3 (1997): 24+.
Behling, Laura L. "'The Woman at the Wheel': Marketing Ideal Womanhood, 1915-1934." Journal of American Culture 20.3 (1997): 13+.
Buhle, Mari Jo, and Paul Buhle, eds. The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from History of Woman Suffrage By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 2005. JK1896 .C664 2005
Burkhalter, Nancy. "Women's Magazines and the Suffrage Movement: Did They Help or Hinder the Cause?" Journal of American Culture 19 (Summer 1996): 13-24.
Clift, Eleanor. Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2003. JK1896 .C55 2003
Flexner, Eleanor, and Ellen Fitzpatrick. Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Belknap of Harvard UP, 1996. HQ1410 .F6 1996 MORGAN
Gordon, Ann D. ed. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1997.
Hannam, June, Mitzi Auchterlonie, and Katherine Holden. International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. JF851 .H28 2000 REFERENCE
Harrison, Patricia Greenwood. Connecting Links: The British and American Woman Suffrage Movements, 1900-1914. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. JK1896 .H37 2000 MORGAN
Hoffert, Sylvia D. "Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage." Journal of American History 85.1 (1998): 279-80. Book review for Susan E. Marshall's book; Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1997. JK1896 .M38 1997 MORGAN
Kruman, Marc W. "Suffrage." Reader's Companion to American History Edition 1991: 1043+.
McCoy, Kathleen, and Judith Harlan. "The Bloomsbury Group." English Literature from 1785 Edition 1992: 348+.
Moore, Sarah J. "Making a Spectacle of Suffrage: The National Woman Suffrage Pageant, 1913." Journal of American Culture 20 (Spring 1997): 89-103. Footnotes and works cited.
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. JK1896 .T47 1998 MORGAN
Turner, Edward Raymond. “The Women's Suffrage Movement in England.” American Political Science Review 7.4 (Nov. 1913): 588-609. (in JSTOR)
"When Women Got the Vote." Good Housekeeping Mar. 1995: 86+. Retrospective. Added material has years women got the vote in (selected) states and foreign countries.
Winsor, Mary. "The Militant Suffrage Movement." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 56 Women in Public Life (Nov. 1914): 134-142. (in JSTOR)
Look for book titles in the Library Catalog SAGE by subject:
- Women Suffrage United States History
- Women Suffrage United States
- Women Suffrage Great Britain
- Women Suffrage Great Britain History
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