Women Who Dare: Women of the Suffrage Movement (Women Who Dare

by Janice E. Ruth, Evelyn Sinclair

Aimed at general readers, this volume tells the story of the decades-long struggle of women to secure the right to vote, from the Seneca Falls meeting in 1848 to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The text is accompanied throughout by images culled from the archives of the Library of Congress. Five special profiles highlight fami

Genres: Womens, Nonfiction, History

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2006

Reviews

[Sandra Oldfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not the book I expected--it's tiny! I thought it was a full size reading book. What is there, though, is good and informative. Now I need to find a book that covers these women and movements more thoroughly

[Catherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good introduction to the 70 year struggle toward American women's voting rights.

[Anyssa Castro · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was an interesting book. Very short. I wish it had more details about these women’s experiences and what they went through. Instead it was more like three page summaries of a few women and also men who had some part in the women’s suffrage movement.

[Dionne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I get so inspired whenever I read about the women who fought for the right to vote. It was a long hard struggle with no end in sight but their cause was right and just.

It is interesting to see how the causes of abolition and suffrage overlapped and yet sometimes clashed too.

[Camille Maio · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great little primer for being introduced to the women's suffrage movement. I would have liked to see a timeline and read more about the relationship with the suffragists and the abolitionist, but I suppose more in-depth books about that are out there.