Alice Paul - Claiming Power

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Note about naming


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: "Mind the Light"


• Chapter 2: "We will find a way, or we will make one"


• Chapter 3: "Heart and Soul Convert"


• Chapter 4: "A New and More Heroic Plane"


• Chapter 5: "A Little Stone in a Big Mosaic"


• Chapter 6: "We Came, They Saw, We Conquered!"


• Chapter 7: "A Procession of Our Own"


• Chapter 8: "A Dark Conspiracy"


• Chapter 9: "We Go To Smash, or Make Good"


• Chapter 10: "A Great Body of Voting Women"


• Chapter 11: "The Voice of the New Power"


• Chapter 12: "The Ghost at the Feast"


• Chapter 13: "The Young are at the Gates"


• Chapter 14: "Jailed for Freedom"


• Chapter 15: "Not a Gift, but a Triumph"


• Epilogue


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

J. D. Zahniser is an independent scholar. She holds a doctorate in American and women's studies.

Amelia R. Fry was an oral historian at the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

This biography of Alice Paul, long an elusive figure in the political history of American women, offers the first in-depth examination of the sources of Paul's ambition and the development of her political consciousness. Focusing on Paul's early years and suffrage leadership, the authors bring fresh insights to the persistent questions about Alice Paul and her legacy.

Product details

• Authors: Amelia R. Fry, Fry Amelia R., J.D. Zahniser, J.d. (Independent Scholar Zahniser
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.03.2019
• EAN: 9780190932930
• ISBN: 978-0-19-093293-0
• No. of pages: 408
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: historical, political & military, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Women, History: earliest times to present day, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, General and world history, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: historical, political and military