The Fight for Women's Rights 1820-1920

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Examining the civic campaigns and political battles for women to participate in public life in the United States, concentrating on the organized efforts to win the franchise. How and why the struggle for the vote took over a century, and what ideologies and groups developed during the women’s suffrage movement. Women’s involvement in reform and the intersection of gender, sexuality and citizenship in the years leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.