From Equal Suffrage to Equal Rights: Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, 1910-1928

The woman's movements and work in American history during the second two decades, was dramatic. It dealt with the past, with pageants and politics; with different organizations and with conflict from within. It took on the Democrats, founded a National Woman's Party; it waged a home front war. It dealt with prison, and resolution. It went from equal suffrage to equal rights.

By focusing on Paul's key role in propelling the American suffrage movement to success, this book is an important addition to the literature and should be welcomed especially by students and teachers of women's history. While most histories of suffrage have overlooked, dismissed, or misjudged Paul's National Woman's Party, Lunardini clearly and effectively argues its impact and legacy. She explains how the ideological conflicts that beset the women's movement in the war years are central to understanding its dissolution after 1920. Paul's work in drafting the Equal Rights Amendment (1923) should make her story of interest to contemporary feminists. Marie Marmo Mullaney, History Dept., Caldwell Coll., Caldwell, N.J.
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