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- Treacherous Texts: An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
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Treacherous Texts collects more than sixty literary texts written by smart, savvy writers who experimented with genre, aesthetics, humor, and sex appeal in an effort to persuade American readers to support woman suffrage. Although the suffrage campaign is often associated in popular memory with oratory, this anthology affirms that suffragists recognized early on that literature could also exert a power to move readers to imagine new roles for women in the public sphere. Uncovering startling affinities between popular literature and propaganda, Treacherous Texts samples a rich, decades-long tradition of suffrage literature created by writers from diverse racial, class, and regional backgrounds.
Table of Contents
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- C O N T E N T S
- pp. v-viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-7
- Introduction
- pp. 10-17
- “Petition for Woman’s Rights” (1846)
- pp. 18-19
- “Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)
- pp. 20-23
- “Woman and the Ballot” (1870)
- pp. 43-46
- “Cupid and Chow-Chow” (1872)
- pp. 62-73
- “Trotty’s Lecture Bureau” (1877)
- pp. 74-77
- “How I went to ’lection” (1877)
- pp. 77-85
- “Another Chapter of ‘The Bostonians’” (1887)
- pp. 100-107
- Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1891)
- pp. 108-111
- Introduction
- pp. 114-118
- Votes for Women (1907)
- pp. 120-132
- “The March of the Women” (1911)
- pp. 133-134
- “The Diary of a Newsy” (1911)
- pp. 135-137
- Julia France and Her Times (1912)
- pp. 138-147
- “How it Feels to be Forcibly Fed” (1914)
- pp. 148-151
- “The Inferior Woman” (1910)
- pp. 153-162
- “Catching Up with China” Banner (1912)
- pp. 165-166
- PART I I I: Making Woman New! 1897–1920
- pp. 168-169
- Introduction
- pp. 170-176
- “The Australian Ballot System” (1898)
- pp. 182-185
- Portia Politics (1911–1912)
- pp. 186-189
- “Women March” (1912)
- pp. 193-199
- “The Arrest of Suffrage” (1912)
- pp. 200-205
- “Mirandy on ‘Why Women Can’t Vote’” (1912)
- pp. 207-210
- Hagar (1913)
- pp. 211-219
- “A Plea for Suffrage” (1915)
- pp. 239-240
- “The President’s Valentine” (1916)
- pp. 241-242
- Fanny Herself (1917)
- pp. 243-253
- The Sturdy Oak, chapter 7 (1917)
- pp. 254-262
- For Rent—One Pedestal (1917)
- pp. 263-269
- “We Worried Woody Wood” (1917)
- pp. 280-281
- “Switchboard Suffrage” (1920)
- pp. 284-288
- Introduction
- pp. 290-293
- Jailed For Freedom (1920)
- pp. 294-297
- “Upon this marble bust that is not I” (1923)
- pp. 298-299
- The Mother of Us All (1946)
- pp. 306-310
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813550756
Related ISBN(s)
9780813549590
MARC Record
OCLC
768732008
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No