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  • MOBILIZING WOMEN-POWER. by Blatch, Harriot Stanton (1856-1940) (foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.)
    Blatch, Harriot Stanton (1856-1940) (foreword by Theodore Roosevelt.)
    MOBILIZING WOMEN-POWER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: The Womans Press, 1918. Hardcover first edition - The first book by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and herself a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer and an advocate for labor reform. "She is credited with modernizing a suffrage movement that, by the opening of the 20th century, was listless and flagging," and also with changing it from primarily a middle and upper class women's movement to one which included concern for the rights of working women. "Her radical style combined militant civil disobedience with political activism. The combination of her energy, daring and political savvy spurred the movement on to its goal of enfranchising American women with the passage…

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    New York: The Womans Press, 1918. Hardcover first edition - The first book by Harriot Stanton Blatch, the daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and herself a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer and an advocate for labor reform. "She is credited with modernizing a suffrage movement that, by the opening of the 20th century, was listless and flagging," and also with changing it from primarily a middle and upper class women's movement to one which included concern for the rights of working women. "Her radical style combined militant civil disobedience with political activism. The combination of her energy, daring and political savvy spurred the movement on to its goal of enfranchising American women with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1920." Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. Although this first book, written during World War I, is a feminist view in favor of war as providing equality of work for women, she returned to the peace movement after seeing the ravages which war had brought to Europe and her second book, published in 1920 was ' A Woman's Point of View, Some Roads to Peace'. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 12 photographic plates - showing women 'comfortably and becoming garbed for working in a factory', pulling a plow in France, with an ambulance equipped with an xray machine set up by Marie Curie, and working in the Erie Railroad workshop. Appendix containing Documents Used in Women's War Work in England and France. 195 pp.

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    Condition: Very good overall in tan cloth with blue lettering and a decorative frame around the title (some rubbing to the lettering on the spine, corners slightly bumped and worn) Very uncommon, and interesting.

    Book ID: 59293
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  • FROM PARLOR TO PRISON: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives. by Gluck, Sherna, editor.
    Gluck, Sherna, editor.
    FROM PARLOR TO PRISON: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1976). First edition - "In this vivid and unique recreation of the American suffrage struggle, five unknown women [Sylvie Thygesen, Jessie Butler, Miriam Allen deFord, Laura Seller, and Ernestine Kettler] from various economic, regional, and various backgrounds reveal, in their own voices, what it was like to be a suffragist six decades ago." Photographs of each woman.Foreword by Kathryn Kish Sklar. Bibliography, chronology. 282 pp. ISBN: 0-394-716426.

    Condition: Very good (toning to pages)

    Book ID: 85922
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  • BRIGHT STAR IN THE BIG SKY: Jeannette Rankin, 1880-1973. by [Rankin, Jeannette] O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer
    [Rankin, Jeannette] O'Brien, Mary Barmeyer
    BRIGHT STAR IN THE BIG SKY: Jeannette Rankin, 1880-1973.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Helena, MT: Falcon Press / TwoDot, (1995). SIGNED first edition - A biography for children this chronicles the extraordinary life of Jeannette Rankin, first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress - as a suffragist, she helped gain women the right to vote in Montana, and as representative from Montana in Congress, she was the only woman who was able to vote for the right of all women in the US to vote. She is, however, best known for casting the only vote against the US entering World War II. As someone who dedicated much of her life towards working for peace, she felt that war, all war, was wrong. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Illustrated…

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    Helena, MT: Falcon Press / TwoDot, (1995). SIGNED first edition - A biography for children this chronicles the extraordinary life of Jeannette Rankin, first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress - as a suffragist, she helped gain women the right to vote in Montana, and as representative from Montana in Congress, she was the only woman who was able to vote for the right of all women in the US to vote. She is, however, best known for casting the only vote against the US entering World War II. As someone who dedicated much of her life towards working for peace, she felt that war, all war, was wrong. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Illustrated with photographs. Bibliography. 73 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 156044360X.

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    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 68330
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