Start Date
12-6-2011 9:30 AM
End Date
12-6-2011 12:00 PM
Subject Areas
North America, colonial/imperial, politics
Abstract
In the last decade, many U.S. historians, including and especially historians of women and gender, have increasingly and successfully taken up the questions of post-colonial studies across different frontier zones and contact points. U.S. suffrage history has remained largely immune to this rich productivity, because the problem for suffrage historians is not simply one of locating empire, but of narrative structure. It is incredibly difficult to write the history of the U.S. suffrage movement without a liberal narrative of progress. And yet, that is precisely what needs to be done in order to truly revision the U.S. suffrage movement in the context of U.S. empire.
Keywords
suffrage, U.S. empire, imperialism
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(Re)Writing Suffrage Histories in Imperial Contexts
In the last decade, many U.S. historians, including and especially historians of women and gender, have increasingly and successfully taken up the questions of post-colonial studies across different frontier zones and contact points. U.S. suffrage history has remained largely immune to this rich productivity, because the problem for suffrage historians is not simply one of locating empire, but of narrative structure. It is incredibly difficult to write the history of the U.S. suffrage movement without a liberal narrative of progress. And yet, that is precisely what needs to be done in order to truly revision the U.S. suffrage movement in the context of U.S. empire.