Marshall, Susan E. Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1997. Susan E. Marshall’s novel, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage, focuses on a struggle against suffrage for women throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book not only goes into great detail about the woman’s antisuffrage movement, but it also goes in depth in the campaign for women’s suffrage. The book shows how the antisuffrage movement was dealt with politically and personally by women and men alike. The author of the novel, Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage is Susan E. Marshall.
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Marshall contains various strengths and weaknesses. A few of the novels strengths include that it is very well-written by a highly qualified author, the events are set in chronological order, and that the novel contains highly developed research. According to Sarah Mercer Judson, “Probably one of the most compelling problems Marshall solves is the apparent contradiction between anti-suffrage women waging a highly visible political campaign against suffrage and their belief that suffrage endangered social order because it brought women into the public sphere” (1999, Judson). Fix the parenthetical reference. Marshall is receiving praise for her novel in this article for calling out an issue of hypocrisy found in the women of this time period that others may have not noticed and addressing why it …show more content…
Gretchen Ritter writes that, “If this book has weaknesses, it is only because this detailed treatment of the antisuffrage movement is not fully exhaustive. The book focuses primarily on the activities of antisuffragists in one state, Massachusetts”(Ritter, 1998). However, her extensive research and her unbiased opinions on the subject matter make up entirely for what may have been lacking in the novel. In conclusion, the women’s antisuffrage war was lost and women gained the right to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution. Although women gained the right to vote, antisuffragist women gained knowledge in the area of politics.
Bibliography
Judson, Sarah Mercer. "Analyzing the history of Women 's Politics in the Shadow of the Millennium." Labour / Le Travail 43, (Spring1999 1999): 195-202. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed March 11, 2015). This is not a review of the book. Find another review about the book.
Ritter, Gretchen. "Book reviews." Political Science Quarterly (Academy Of Political Science) 113, no. 2 (Summer98 1998): 333. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed March 11,
Marshall contains various strengths and weaknesses. A few of the novels strengths include that it is very well-written by a highly qualified author, the events are set in chronological order, and that the novel contains highly developed research. According to Sarah Mercer Judson, “Probably one of the most compelling problems Marshall solves is the apparent contradiction between anti-suffrage women waging a highly visible political campaign against suffrage and their belief that suffrage endangered social order because it brought women into the public sphere” (1999, Judson). Fix the parenthetical reference. Marshall is receiving praise for her novel in this article for calling out an issue of hypocrisy found in the women of this time period that others may have not noticed and addressing why it …show more content…
Gretchen Ritter writes that, “If this book has weaknesses, it is only because this detailed treatment of the antisuffrage movement is not fully exhaustive. The book focuses primarily on the activities of antisuffragists in one state, Massachusetts”(Ritter, 1998). However, her extensive research and her unbiased opinions on the subject matter make up entirely for what may have been lacking in the novel. In conclusion, the women’s antisuffrage war was lost and women gained the right to vote with the passing of the 19th amendment to the US Constitution. Although women gained the right to vote, antisuffragist women gained knowledge in the area of politics.
Bibliography
Judson, Sarah Mercer. "Analyzing the history of Women 's Politics in the Shadow of the Millennium." Labour / Le Travail 43, (Spring1999 1999): 195-202. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed March 11, 2015). This is not a review of the book. Find another review about the book.
Ritter, Gretchen. "Book reviews." Political Science Quarterly (Academy Of Political Science) 113, no. 2 (Summer98 1998): 333. MasterFILE Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed March 11,