General U.S. Woman Suffrage Bibliography

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Bibliography of the U.S. Suffrage Movement. http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/bibsufh.html
This un-annotated, comprehensive bibliography covers all aspects of the suffrage movement. It is arranged by author's last name. Bibliography is attached to the Susan B. Anthony University Center web page http://www.rochester.edu/SBA which contains other suffrage links and information.

Bolt, Christine. The Women's Movements: in the United States and Britain from the 1790's to the 1920's. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

Camhi, Jane Jerome. Women Against Women: American Anti-Suffragism, 1880-1920. Brooklyn: Carlson Publishing, Inc., 1994.

Cott, Nancy F. The Grounding of Modern Feminism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

DuBois, Ellen Carol. Woman Suffrage and Women's Rights. New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Finnegan, Margaret. Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Fowler, Robert Booth. Carrie Catt: Feminist Politician. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986.

Frost, Elizabeth and Kathryn Cullen-DuPont. Women's Suffrage in America: an Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992.

Gilmore, Glenda. Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Gordon, Ann D. with Bettye Collier-Thomas...[et al.] (ed.) African-American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Graham, Sara Hunter. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
The book examines the successes of the NAWSA in getting the nineteenth amendment ratified. The author examines the woman suffrage movement in the context of pressure politics.

Green, Elna C. Southern Strategies: Southern Women and the Woman Suffrage Question. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Harper, Ida Husted. History of Woman Suffrage Volume 5, 1900-1920. New York: Arno and the New York Times, 1969.

Kraditor, Aileen S. The Ideas of the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1890-1920. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1981.
Kraditor examines the relationship between a movement's attitudes and theories and its strategies and tactics. She discusses the controversy between the NAWSA and the CU/NWP. She is slightly biased towards the CU/NWP's strategies.

Kuzma, Chelsea. How Did the Views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois toward Woman Suffrage Change between 1900 and 1915? Last updated: 8/98. http://womhist.binghamton.edu/webdbtw/Intro.htm

Library, University of California Berkeley. Suffragists Oral History Project. Last updated 1/21/99. http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/ohonline/suffragists.html
Online, full-text interviews of suffragists that were collected in the 1970's by the Suffragists Oral History Project. The interviews include: Alice Paul, leader of the CU/NWP; a woman who helped organize Alice Paul's 1915 cross-country tour, and a woman who worked with Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the NAWSA.

Lumsden, Linda J. Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997.
Discusses suffragists' strategies in terms of free speech and right to assembly. Includes chronology of women suffrage events.

Masel-Walters, Lynne Janet. Their Rights and Nothing Less: the History and Thematic Content of the American Woman Suffrage Press, 1868-1920. Diss. University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1977.

Morgan, David. Suffragists and Democrats: the Politics of Woman Suffrage in America. Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1972.
Focusses on the suffrage campaign at the Congressioanal level after 1912. Morgan is concerned about the period when women suffrage began to impact national politics and create factions within political parties.

National American Woman Suffrage Association. Victory: How Women Won It, A Centennial Symposium, 1840-1940. New York: H.W. Wilson, Co., 1940.

National Archives and Records Administration. Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment: Primary Sources, Activities and Links to Related Web Sites for Educators and Students. Last updated: 2/4/98. http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/woman/home.html

National Woman's Party. National Woman's Party. http://www.natwomanparty.org
Official web site of the National Woman's Party.

National Women's History Project. Women Win the Vote: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Woman Suffrage, 1920-1995. http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote
Overview of U.S. woman suffrage movement, including a comprehensive timeline.

Pardo, Thomas C. National Woman's Party Papers, 1913-1974: the Guide to the Microform Collection. Sanford: Microfilming Corp of America, 1979.

Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Votes for Woman Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920. Last updated: 10/19/98. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html

Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1848-1921. Last updated: 10/18/98. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
In 1938, Carrie Chapman Catt and other NAWSA leaders donated books, pamphlets, meeting minutes, and other primary sources that document the woman suffrage movement. The web site includes 167 of these sources in a searchable, full-text format.

75 Suffragists. http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/History/Vote/75-suffragists.html
Page contains short biographies of 75 suffragists, including Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt.

Sloan, Kay. "Sexual Warfare in the Silent Cinema: Comedies and Melodramas of Woman Suffragism." American Quarterly. 33.4 (1981): 412-36.

Van Voris, Jacqueline. Carrie Chapman Catt: a Public Life. New York: The Feminist Press, 1987.
The section, Road to Victory 1913-1920, focusses on the final phase of the suffrage movement. It discusses the NAWSA's tactics and the division between Catt and Paul.

Weatherford, Doris. A History of the American Suffragist Movement. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1998.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spurill. New Women of the New South: the Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. New York: Oxford, 1993.

Wheeler, Marjorie Spurill (ed). Votes for Women!: the Woman Suffrage Movement in Tennessee, the South, and the Nation. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Women Win the Vote: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Woman Suffrage, 1920-1995.

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