The weight of their votes southern women and political leverage in the 1920s /
After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. This book examines the consequences this had in states across the South. It shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political lan...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2006.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. This book examines the consequences this had in states across the South. It shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1469606224 9781469606224 0807876690 9780807876695 |