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BL
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1008085
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b762455
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Schuyler, Lorraine Gates.
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The weight of their votes : : southern women and political leverage in the 1920s /\ Lorraine Gates Schuyler.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xiii, 336 pages) :: illustrations, maps
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| ISBN
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0807876690
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: 1469606224
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: 9780807876695
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: 9781469606224
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0807830666
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0807857769
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9780807830666
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9780807857762
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
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| Contents
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Now you smell perfume : the social drama of politics in the 1920s -- More people to vote : woman suffrage and the challenge to disfranchisement -- Making their bow to the ladies : southern party leaders and the fight for new women voters -- Not bound to any party : the problem of women voters in the solid South -- The best weapon for reform : women lobbying with the vote -- No longer treated lightly : southern legislators and new women voters -- To hold the lady votes : southern politics ten years after suffrage.
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| Abstract
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After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time. In 'The Weight of Their Votes', Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the consequences this had in states across the South. She shows that from polling places to the halls of state legislatures, women altered the political landscape in ways both symbolic and substantive. Schuyler challenges popular scholarly opinion that women failed to wield their ballots effectively in the 1920s, arguing instead that in state and local politics, women made the most of their votes.
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Political participation-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.
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Voting-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.
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Women-- Political activity-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.
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Women-- Suffrage-- Southern States-- History-- 20th century.
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Frauenwahlrecht
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Political participation.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- General.
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Politics and government
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Politische Beteiligung
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Women's Studies.
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Voting.
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Wahlverhalten
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Women-- Political activity.
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Women-- Suffrage.
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Frau.
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Southern States, Politics and government, 20th century.
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Southern States.
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USA, Südstaaten
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| Dewey Classification
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324.975/042
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| LC Classification
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HQ1236.5.S676S38 2006
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