Alice Paul: Equality for Women - Paperback

by Christine Lunardini (Author)

This shows the dominant and unwavering role Paul played in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, granting the vote to American women. The dramatic details of Paul's imprisonment and solitary confinement, hunger strike, and force-feeding at the hands of the U.S. government illustrate her fierce devotion to the cause she spent her life promoting.

Author Biography

Christine Lunardini received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University and has taught at Princeton University, Barnard College, and Pace University. She is the author of several books on women's history as well as many articles.

Series editor Carol Berkin is a well-known women's historian and the author of many popular and scholarly books, including Civil War Wives. She is Professor of History Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and she is a member of the Society of American Historians.