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Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights (Hardback or Cased
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 025335661X
- EAN
- 9780253356611
- Binding
- TC
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
025335661X
ISBN-13
9780253356611
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2309340384
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Rich & Famous, Philanthropy & Charity, Women in Politics, Civil Rights, Political
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-024056
Reviews
Hoffert's refined understanding of how a biographer's subjectivity shapes the narrative of someone else's life strengthens her engaging look at Belmont's place in history. . . . [H]er expert handling of the autobiographical source material reveals how intricately woven good biography can be. . . . Highly recommended. , Hoffert's refined understanding of how a biographer's subjectivity shapes the narrative of someone else's life strengthens her engaging look at Belmont's place in history.... [H]er expert handling of the autobiographical source material reveals how intricately woven good biography can be.... Highly recommended., "A major contribution to our understanding of the women's rights movement in America and to feminist biography and historiography." Ruth Crocker, author of Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America, "Hoffert's refined understanding of how a biographer's subjectivity shapes the narrative of someone else's life strengthens her engaging look at Belmont's place in history.... [H]er expert handling of the autobiographical source material reveals how intricately woven good biography can be.... Highly recommended." -Choice, "Hoffert ably tells the fascinating story of Belmont's rise to celebrity status and her crucial contributions to suffrage and the women's rights movement" -CCWH Newsletter, "A major contribution to our understanding of the women's rights movement in America and to feminist biography and historiography."--Ruth Crocker, author of Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America "Hoffert's refined understanding of how a biographer's subjectivity shapes the narrative of someone else's life strengthens her engaging look at Belmont's place in history. . . . [H]er expert handling of the autobiographical source material reveals how intricately woven good biography can be. . . . Highly recommended."-- Choice "Sylvia D. Hoffert has made a convincing case that Belmont's work on behalf of women's suffrage was critical to the movement's success."-- Journal of American History "Hoffert ably tells the fascinating story of Belmont's rise to celebrity status and her crucial contributions to suffrage and the women's rights movement"-- CCWH Newsletter, "Sylvia D. Hoffert has made a convincing case that Belmont's work on behalf of women's suffrage was critical to the movement's success." -Journal of American History, Hoffert ably tells the fascinating story of Belmont's rise to celebrity status and her crucial contributions to suffrage and the women's rights movement, A major contribution to our understanding of the women's rights movement in America and to feminist biography and historiography., "A major contribution to our understanding of the women's rights movement in America and to feminist biography and historiography." -Ruth Crocker, author of Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America, Sylvia D. Hoffert has made a convincing case that Belmont's work on behalf of women's suffrage was critical to the movement's success., A major contribution to our understanding of the women's rights movement in America and to feminist biography and historiography.--Ruth Crocker, author of Mrs. Russell Sage: Women's Activism and Philanthropy in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
305.42092 B
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. An Impossible Child 2. Every Inch a General 3. A Sex Battle 4. Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose 5. Belmont's Orphan Child 6. The Last Word Postscript: My Turn Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign. Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and that her financial support was crucial to the success of the suffrage and equal rights movements. She also shows how Belmont's activism, and the money she used to support it, enriches our understanding of the personal dynamics of the American woman's rights movement. Her analysis of Belmont's memoirs illustrates how Belmont went about the complex and collaborative process of creating her public self., Her analysis of Belmont's memoirs illustrates how Belmont went about the complex and collaborative process of creating her public self.
LC Classification Number
HQ1413.B44H64 2012
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