Gentle Warriors - Softcover

Stuhler, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0873513185 ISBN 13: 9780873513180

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1995

Synopsis

Gentle Warriors tells the moving story of the final phase of the Minnesota women's struggle for the vote under the leadership of the remarkable Clara Ueland. Clara Ueland, socially prominent wife of a successful Minneapolis attorney and mother of seven children, became president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association in 1914. To that challenge she brought considerable skills acquired as a teacher, a household manager, and a community activist. She was a new woman of her time: politically astute, enormously competent, and widely respected. Under her leadership, enthusiastic, persistent suffragists were organized in some five hundred towns throughout Minnesota by 1919 - the year the state legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment.

Through research in family papers, organizational records, and the vast literature on women's history, Stuhler shows how Minnesota's campaigners for equal voting rights reflect America's second generation of suffragists. Unlike the first generation of leaders - Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and others - the women who carried the struggle to its brilliant victory in 1920 are largely forgotten. Gentle Warriors brings them back to life, re-creating their energizing achievements, their bitter disappointments, their conflicts and friendships. On these pages, those committed suffragists who struggled on with such bountiful imagination, humor, dedication, and vision, take their rightful place in history.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Stuhler is retired as professor and executive associate dean of Continuing Education and Extension at the University of Minnesota.

Review:

"This is an admirable book. Barbara Stuhler reminds us that lesser-known midwestern women were just as instrumental to the success of suffrage as were nationally know women such as Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul." -- The Annals of Iowa

Gentle Warriors tells the moving story of the final phase of Minnesota women's struggle to win the vote under the leadership of the remarkable Clara Ueland. Through a depiction of Ueland's life and work, Barbara Stuhler shows us the state's hardworking and energetic suffragists marching in the streets, organizing women throughout Minnesota, arguing over strategies, and speaking out before the legislature. Abhorring violence, these women were compelled to carry out a non-violent campaign of persuasion and pressure to achieve their goal of equal suffrage. Gentle Warriors traces the vital connections between their local actions and the national campaign, providing a valuable capsule history of the equal-suffrage movement in the United States at large. Now largely forgotten, America's second-generation suffragists are brought back to life in Gentle Warriors, thus taking their rightful place in American political and cultural history. Gentle Warriors is a highly recommended addition to all women's studies, political science, and American history reading lists. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0873513185
• ISBN 13: 9780873513180
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 339