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The Seventy-Flfth Anniversary of Woman Suffrage ln the Untied States: A Bibliographic Essay Gayle Veronica Fischer On August 26,1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified as a part of the United States Constitution. Often referred to as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, it states, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shaU not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." Seventy-five years later, the anniversary of woman suffrage in the United States is being celebrated across the nation with exhibits, performances , marches, and lectures. The National Women's History Project (7738 BeU Road, Windsor, CA 95492. (707) 838-6000) is perhaps the best resource avaüable for learning about suffrage anniversary celebration events. This bibliographic essay is a scholarly celebration and commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of suffrage and the constantly expanding historical literature on the suffrage movement. One need only open the card catalog drawers marked "suffrage" or search "suffrage" on an on-line catalog to be overwhelmed by the amount of Uiformation available on U.S. women's suffrage. Primary sources, many avaüable on microfilm, in reprinted formats, in collections of documents, or in special CoUections, make up the bulk of library entries. This bibliography does not include primary sources, nor does it include the first histories of the suffrage movement which were written largely by partidpants in the movement and can almost be considered primary sources themselves, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, et al.'s six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. Instead, this essay focuses on the secondary Uterature written since 1959, the year Eleanor Flexner's Century of Struggle was first published. Compiling a bibliography of women's suffrage in the United States is a daunting task. In order to make that task more manageable, I have stressed journal articles. I have limited monographs to those that deal primarily with suffrage, even so the volume of titles has forced me to be selective and I try to make it dear why I have chosen to include the books I do. The Ust includes dissertations and theses; if the dissertation or thesis has been pubtished, I do not indude its unpubtished citation. Because of the large number and because they do not usuaUy focus on a woman's suffrage activities, I have diosen not to include citations for biographies. © 1995 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 7 No. 3 (Fall) 1995 Bibliographic Essay: Gayle Veronica Fischer 173 The essay is not organized chronologicaUy by either pubUcation date or historic suffrage dates, instead it is broken down into three sections. The first part looks at the works that might now be considered "dassics" and the questions they posed. Next, I grouped works together that dealt with specific issues, some only tangenitaUy related to suffrage, but which expand on the eartier suffrage sdiolarship and aUow for a fuller, more complex understanding of the fight for female suffrage. FtiiaUy, regional studies are arranged to highUght this growing area of inquiry and to point out geographical locations that stiU need to be examined. Every attempt has been made to Ust a work only once, however, some pieces lend themselves to more then one topic, Ui those cases I placed them Ui the most significant category. The Classic Texts and Related Issues The Classic Texts The classic works on woman suffrage focused on the winning of the federal constitutional amendment and the national woman suffrage organizations , NAWSA and the National Woman's Party. Eleanor Flexner's Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959) was the first scholarly account of the woman suffrage movement m the U.S. and one of the few monographs to foUow the movement from its eartiest incarnation to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Flexner concentrated on major events and players. She concluded with an analysis of what the vote did not bring women. Anne Firor Scott and Andrew Scott also examined the national suffrage movement in the period 1848 to 1920 in One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1975...

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