Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming
Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism. This essay argues that women won the vote in Wyoming Territory in 1869 due to a conv...
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Main Author: | Virginia Scharff |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2022-06-01
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Series: | Transatlantica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/18470 |
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