{"product_id":"picturing-political-power-images-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement-paperback","title":"Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllison K. Lange\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals the power of images to change history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images-whether illustrations, engravings, photographs, or colorful chromolithograph posters. Some of these pictures have been flattering, many have been condescending, and others downright incendiary. They have drawn upon prevailing cultural ideas of women's perceived roles and abilities and often have been circulated with pointedly political objectives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003ePicturing Political Power\u003c\/i\u003e offers perhaps the most comprehensive analysis yet of the connection between images, gender, and power. In this examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, Allison K. Lange explores how suffragists pioneered one of the first extensive visual campaigns in modern American history. She shows how pictures, from early engravings and photographs to colorful posters, proved central to suffragists' efforts to change expectations for women, fighting back against the accepted norms of their times. In seeking to transform notions of womanhood and win the right to vote, white suffragists emphasized the compatibility of voting and motherhood, while Sojourner Truth and other leading suffragists of color employed pictures to secure respect and authority. \u003ci\u003ePicturing Political Power\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the centrality of visual politics to American women's campaigns throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing the power of images to change history.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAllison K. Lange\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of history at Wentworth Institute of Technology. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 27, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160824811655,"sku":"9780226815848","price":64.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d3f239d4faeb9dd675ffd3bc08fda25b.webp?v=1733276288","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/picturing-political-power-images-in-the-womens-suffrage-movement-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}