"More Than She Deserves": Woman Suffrage Memorials in the "Equality State."
How is it that the first significant victory in the history of the woman suffrage movement-the enfranchisement of women in Wyoming Territory in 1869 is also the most poorly remembered and understood? This article argues that the terms by which woman suffrage was deemed memorable in Wyoming were at o...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 17 - 44 |
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University of Toronto Press
2006
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=21066358&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 21066358 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00077720 CRA jtl: Canadian Review of American Studies issn: 00077720 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2006 vid: 36 iid: 1 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 21066358 10.1353/crv.2006.0027 ppf: 17 ppct: 27 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 7.2MB tig: atl: "More Than She Deserves": Woman Suffrage Memorials in the "Equality State." aug: au: Lamont, Victoria affil: University of Waterloo in Ontario su: Morris, Esther Hobart Women in politics Political rights Women's rights Suffrage Women's history Suffragists Wyoming sug: subj: Wyoming Morris, Esther Hobart Women in politics Political rights Women's rights Suffrage Women's history Suffragists keyword: Esther Hobart Morris monuments United States woman suffrage États-Unis Esther Hobart Morris monuments suffrage féminin Wyoming ab: How is it that the first significant victory in the history of the woman suffrage movement-the enfranchisement of women in Wyoming Territory in 1869 is also the most poorly remembered and understood? This article argues that the terms by which woman suffrage was deemed memorable in Wyoming were at odds with the historical material itself: Political women were frowned upon in Wyoming; hence memorials were erected to women who had played a relatively minor role in the movement, while the most active suffragists were demonized as mannish office seekers. Buildings most closely associated with woman suffrage, such as the site where the first woman jurors deliberated, were allowed to go to ruin while monuments to early suffrage "mothers" were erected on sites of dubious provenance. This fragile foundation rendered these memorials vulnerable to critique by twentieth-century historians who characterized suffrage as a gift given to women by a chivalrous legislature. Meanwhile, the woman activists who had sacrificed their reputations for the sake of the cause have been all but forgotten. Comment se fait-il que la première victoire significative dans I'histoirc du mouvement pour le suffrage féminin - I'octroi du droit de vote aux femmes dans le Territoire do Wyoming en 1869 - soit également le moins connu et le moins bien compris? La these de cet article est que les conditions qui rendaient mémorable le suffrage des femmes dans le Wyoming cadraient mal avec la matière historique elle-inême : les femmes politiques étaient mal vues dans le Wyoming, e'est pourquoi on a &eacure;rigé des monuments à celles qui avalent joné un rôle relativement mineur au sein du mouvement, alors que les suffragistes les plus engagécs étaient perçues comme des femmes masculines en quête de pouvoir. Les lieux les plus étroitcmcnt associés au suffrage féminin, par exemple l'endroit oü les premiéres femmes juristes ont délibéré, ont été laissés à labandon tandis que des monuments à certaines «mères » du mouvement ont été érigés sur des sites douteux, En raison de leurs fondements fragiles, ces monuments ont ainsi été exposés à la critique des historiens du vingtième siècle, qui ont caractérisé le droit de vote comme un cadeau qu'une législature galante aurait fait aux femmes. Pendant ce temps, les activistes qui avaient sacritié leur réputation pour la cause ont été presque oubliées. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Canadian Review of American Studies is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Canadian Review of American Studies holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2006 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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