Cartooning for Suffrage [Hardcover]

Alice Sheppard (Author), A. Sheppard (Author), Elisabeth Israels Perry (Designer)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 276 pages
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; 1st edition (November 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826314589
• ISBN-13: 978-0826314581
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,609 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #61 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies > History

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sheppard finds the mothers cartoonists never knew they had, February 8, 1998

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As American editorial cartooning becomes more and more irrelevant, Alice Sheppard's fine book shows what a powerful tool this once popular medium can be. For ten brief years starting around 1910, dozens of women came out of nowhere and began cartooning for the womens' right to vote. Two or three like Rose O'Neil were well known as illustrators but most of the others picked up their pens simply to fight for what they thought was justice. Imagine! They won no prizes. No reprints in Newsweek. No 401K plans through their newspapers' corporate pension plans. Their only prize was the 19th Amendment. Sheppard does a great job of exhuming the stories of these funny, talented, now mostly forgotten cartoonists. Signe Wilkinson