100 Years of Women's Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women's suffrage movement and women's voting previously published by the University of Illinois Press. With an original introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt, the volume illuminates the lives and work of key figures while uncovering the endeavors of all women—across lines of gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity—to gain, and use, the vote. Beginning with works that focus on cultural and political suffrage battles, the chapters then look past 1920 at how women won, wielded, and continue to fight for access to the ballot.

A curation of important scholarship on a pivotal historical moment, 100 Years of Women's Suffrage captures the complex and enduring struggle for fair and equal voting rights.

Contributors: Laura L. Behling, Erin Cassese, Mary Chapman, M. Margaret Conway, Carolyn Daniels, Bonnie Thornton Dill, Ellen Carol DuBois, Julie A. Gallagher, Barbara Green, Nancy A. Hewitt, Leonie Huddy, Kimberly Jensen, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Lady Constance Lytton, and Andrea G. Radke-Moss

|Preface
Introduction
Nancy A. Hewitt
Part I The Cultural and Political Struggles for Enfranchisement
1 "The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement: Notes toward the Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Feminism" Ellen Carol DuBoiś
2 "Mormon Women, Suffrage, and Citizenship at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair" Andrea G. Radke-Moss
3 "Suffrage and Spectacle" Mary Chapman and Barbara Green
4 "From Prisons and Prisoners" Lady Constance Lytton
5 "'Whether We Vote or Not—We are Going to Shoot': Women and Armed Defense on the Home Front" Kimberly Jensen
6 "Unsightly Evidence: 'Female Inversion' and the U.S. Woman Suffrage Movement" Laura L. Behling
Part II Winning and Wielding the Ballot
7 "Fighting for Rights in the 1910s and 1920s" (Excerpt) Julie A. Gallagher
8 "New Women" Nancy A. Hewitt
9 "We Just Kept Going" Carolyn Daniels
10 "Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects of an All-Inclusive Sisterhood" Bonnie Thornton Dill
11 "Sources of Political Unity and Disunity among Women: Placing the Gender Gap in Perspective" Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte
12 "The Gender Gap: A Comparison across Racial and Ethnic Groups" M. Margaret Conway
List of Original Publications
Contributors
Index|"From the brutal imprisonment narratives that roused a nation's sympathies to the suffragists' plight to the 'gender gap' in contemporary voting, this text is a rich collection of University of Illinois Press works on the American women's suffrage quest and its aftermath. 100 Years of Women's Suffrage highlights rarely discussed regional and racial approaches in the fight for women's 'first class citizenship' through a fascinating mix of primary accounts and historical and gender studies essays. A recommended anthology that rightly honors the Nineteenth Amendment's centennial."—Michelle R. Scott, author of Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South
"Offering a unique and creative way to reflect on the suffrage movement, this anthology includes a full gamut of suffrage-related topics and controversies. This collection from years of scholarship from some of the most important scholars of women and voting will enrich our understanding of the subject in all its diversity and range. In revisiting the arguments, it will assuredly prompt new scholarship on the movement."—Susan Goodier, coauthor of No Votes for...

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