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The first hemispheric study to trace how women in the Americas obtained the right to vote, Women's Suffrage in the Americas pushes back against the misconception that women's movements originated in the United States. The volume brings Latin American voices to the forefront of English-language scholarship. Suffragists across the hemisphere worked together, formed collegial networks to support each other's work, and fostered advances toward women gaining the vote over time and space from one country to the next. The collection as a whole suggests several models by which women in the Americas gained the right to vote: through party politics; through decree, despite delays justified by women's supposed conservative politics; through conservative defense of traditional roles for women; and within the context of imperialism. However, until now historians have traditionally failed to view this common history through a hemispheric lens.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction by Stephanie Mitchell
- Scenario 1. (Il?) Liberal Democratic Scenario (Examples: Costa Rica, Canada, United States)
- Chapter 1. âAffronting Electoral Lawâ: Struggle, Conquest, and Approval of Womenâs Suffrage in Costa Rica (1890-1949) by Eugenia RodrĂguez SĂĄenz
- Chapter 2. Fractured Landscapes: Women and the Long Struggle for Suffrage and Political Equality in Canada by Veronica Strong-Boag
- Chapter 3. The Suffrage Movement in the United States: Demanding the Right to Vote across Gender and Racial Lines in an (Il?) Liberal Democracy by Susan Goodier
- Scenario II. Crisis of Representation (Examples: Brazil, Argentina, Colombia)
- Chapter 4. Ideological and Political Obstacles to Enfranchising Women in Brazil by Teresa Cristina de Novaes Marques
- Chapter 5. History and Interpretations of Womenâs Suffrage in Argentina by Adriana MarĂa Valobra
- Chapter 6. Womenâs Suffrage in Columbia by Guiomar Dueñas Vargas
- Scenario III. Liberal Delay (Examples: Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua)
- Chapter 7. âLaughter in the Chamberâ: Mexicoâs Long Road to Womenâs Suffrage by Stephanie Mitchell
- Chapter 8. Womenâs History: Historiographical Proposals on How Women Obtained the Suffrage in Chile by Claudia Montero and MarĂa Paz Vera
- Chapter 9. The History of Womenâs Suffrage in Nicaragua: An Incomplete Story by Victoria GonzĂĄlez-Rivera
- Scenario IV. Perceived Conservative Strategic Advantage (Examples: Ecuador, Peru)
- Chapter 10. Without Consideration of Their Sex?: The Uneven Path to Female Suffrage in Ecuador, ca. 1883-1940 by Erin E. OâConnor
- Chapter 11. Collective Action for Womenâs Suffrage in Peru: Political Contexts, Womenâs Organizations, and Public Actors by Roisida Aguilar
- Scenario V. Imperial Scenario (Examples: Puerto Rico, Philippines)
- Chapter 12. Filipina Womenâs Political Alterity Under U.S. Empire, 1912-1937 by Christine Peralta
- Chapter 13. A Look at the Struggle for Universal Suffrage in Puerto Rico through the Endeavors of Two Unusual Women, Genara PagĂĄn and Ricarda LĂłpez de Ramos Casellas by Roxanna Domenech Cruz
- Conclusion by Stephanie Mitchell
- Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index