U.S.Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920
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 Belva A. Lockwood |
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From the early days of the woman's rights movement, the issues of suffrage, feminism, and even women gaining political office were the subject of novels, plays, and stories. Some were satires, which tried to ridicule the movement and its supporters, such as the 1855 A Book for the Times; Lucy Boston or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism, by Fred Folio. Other publications, especially utopian literature, were openly supportive of women's rights, suffrage, and election politics.
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The items included on this site dealt openly with the possibility of women gaining political office and what that might mean for American society. Many of these books and stories were written after women started running for office and getting elected to local and state positions in the 1880s and 1890s. |  For more on this book, click here |