Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2020
Abstract
This essay first details the origins of women's political demand for the vote as part of a comprehensive social reform. It then discusses the four strands of the comprehensive early women's rights agenda for gender equality focused on the political state, domestic family, economic industry, and religious church. Finally, it connects the suffrage activism with demands for an equal rights amendment to realize the full civil rights of equality envisioned by and for women. This long view of women's rights shows it was never only about the vote; rather, the vote stood as a shorthand for a complete revolution of the interlocking systems supporting women's oppression and denying women equal rights.
Publication Title
Stanford J. C.R. & C.L.
Volume
15
First Page
349
Recommended Citation
Thomas, Tracy A., "More Than the Vote: The Nineteenth Amendment as Proxy for Gender Equality" (2020). Akron Law Faculty Publications. 324.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/ua_law_publications/324
