A collective biography of important American women who fought for the female right to vote, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth.
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From School Library Journal
Grade 7 Up-This collective biography profiles 10 of the most influential suffragists and, in doing so, also provides a history of the movement they led. Readers will see both the women's steadfast determination to gain a political voice through the ballot and also how their differences in beliefs, strategies, and ideas shaped the direction and public perceptions of their crusade. Helmer places the women in roughly chronological order, beginning with the pioneering Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and closing with Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Jeannette Pickering Rankin, women who were able to use the power the ballot gave to them. Helmer is positive about her subjects but also reveals details that are sometimes less than flattering. The profiles run about 15 pages and include a portrait of the woman, a chronology of her life, and a list for further reading. This book will be mostly used for reports, but the narrative is interesting enough for general reading. Marlene Brill's Let Women Vote (Millbrook, 1995) and Miriam Sagan's Women's Suffrage (Lucent, 1995) both offer historical overviews of the campaign for suffrage with less emphasis on the movement's leaders. This book is a good complement to them and is a solid choice for libraries that need material on this always-popular report topic.
Mary Mueller, Rolla Junior High School, MO
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Mary Mueller, Rolla Junior High School, MO
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
This latest book in the American Profiles series features short biographies of ten women who fought for the right to vote. Among those included are Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Mary Church Terrell, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Victoria Woodhull, and Jeannette Pickering Rankin. Helmer succinctly outlines each woman's life in 1012 pages and describes how that woman came to the suffrage movement. Each vignette includes a chronology and a further reading list. The last entry, Jeannette Pickering Rankin, appropriately sets forth the results of enfranchisement: ``She was the first woman ever elected to the United States Congress and the first woman elected to any national government in the world.'' While there is some disjointedness and repetition in the stories, the book will provide researchers with an overview of the suffrage movement, and solid background on some of its leading lights. (b&w photos, index, not seen, chronologies, further reading) (Biography. 10-14) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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