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Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History Of The Women's Suffrage Movement

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Jun 01 2022
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History Of The Women's Suffrage Movement

In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that the suffrage movement included individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. However, owing to the constant pressure to present a “respectable” public image, suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women’s suffrage more palatable to the public. Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to assert their identities and legacies by challenging ... view more »

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