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No Votes for Women

The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement

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No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women. Susan Goodier finds that conservative women who fought against suffrage encouraged women to retain their distinctive feminine identities as protectors of their homes and families, a role they felt was threatened by the imposition of masculine political responsibilities. She details the victories and defeats on both sides of the movement from its start in the 1890s to its end in the 1930s, acknowledging the powerful activism of this often overlooked and misunderstood political force in the history of women's equality.
| Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Anti-Suffragists at the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention 2. Establishing New York State Anti-Suffrage Organizations, 1895–1911 3. Antis Win the New York State Campaign, 1912–1915 4. Suffragists Win the New York State Campaign, 1915–1917 5. Using Enfranchisement to Fight Woman Suffrage, 1917–1932 6. Antis Adjust to Enfranchisement, 1917–1932 Conclusion Notes References Index | "Goodier has demonstrated the important role the Great War played in affecting domestic political campaigns. Any scholar interested in woman's rights, conservatism, or New York history will learn a tremendous amount from the work. And no future scholar studying either the suffrage movement or the anti-suffrage campaign will be able to think about the subject without first taking Goodier's analysis into full consideration."—The Hudson River Valley Review



"Goodier provides a compelling study of the female-led anti-suffrage movement in New York. A valuable addition to the study of women's suffrage and voting in the US. Highly recommended."—Choice

"Goodier adds to the historical discussion an emphasis on the interaction between the "suffs" and the "antis" and her focus on the differing impact of World War I on the anti-suffrage movement is also important. Another significant contribution of the work is to highlight the fact that antisuffrage women did not share the suffragists' dilemma over whether to join the traditional political parties after ratification."—The Journal of American History


|Susan Goodier is a lecturer in history at SUNY Oneonta, an editor for the journal New York History, and a public scholar for Humanities New York.

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