Picturing Political Power - Images in the Women''s Suffrage Movement

Informationen zum Autor Allison K. Lange is associate professor of history at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Klappentext "For as long as American women have battled for equitable political representation, those battles have been defined by images--whether drawn, etched, photographed, or filmed. Some of these have been flattering, many of them have been condescending, and some have been scabrous. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural tropes about the perceived nature of women's roles and abilities, and they have circulated both with and without conscious political objectives. Allison K. Lange takes a systematic look at American women's efforts to control the production and dissemination of images of them in the long battle for representation, from the mid-nineteenth-century onward"--

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• Authors: Allison K Lange, Allison K. Lange
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780226703244
• ISBN: 978-0-226-70324-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political campaigning & advertising, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, Political campaigning and advertising, Gender studies: women and girls, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage