Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910s and a fearless crusader for women's rights. Moving in radical circles, she agitated for social change in the prewar years, and she epitomized the independent New Woman of the time. Her death at age 30 while stumping for suffrage in California in 1916 made her the sole martyr of the American suffrage movement. Her death helped inspire two years of militant protests by the National Woman's Party, including the picketing of the White House, which led in 1920 to ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Lumsden's study of this colorful and influential figure restores to history an important link between the homebound women of the 19th century and the iconoclastic feminists of the 1970s.

2005 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection

About the Author

Linda J. Lumsden is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona. She is author of Black, White and Red All Over: A Cultural History of the Radical Press in its Heyday, 1900-1917. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia in 2012-2013.

Reviews

Lumsden wrote in a heroic style that implicitly challenges scholars experienced in U.S. women's history to take on this important icon to provide a more critical analysis of the context and impact of Milholland's activism and strategies on behalf the fight for women's rights.

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Book Information
ISBN 9780253020604
Author Linda J. Lumsden
Format Paperback
Page Count 280
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 376g