For silence your cell phones. Of course it would use them for social media you are welcome to keep them on. Also during our q a we have microphone, just one this time, so if you could step up to that mike mika would be great because as you can see we have cspan film we also making an audio recording of this event. And feel free to leave your chairs with our. We have more events coming up this afternoon so youre welcome to stick around all day. Im pleased to welcome Johanna Neuman this afternoon to discuss her important new book gilded suffragists about a group of new york socialites who fought for the womens right to vote in the early part of the last century. Among the more than 200 social figures involved in the movement she writes about a host of familiar names including astor, belmont, harriman and vanderbilt, richard might just what a radical explosive notion the womens vote was in the early 1900s and how in her own words theres a moment when generations cross paths and an idea th
Them for social media youre welcome to keep them on. Also during our q and a we have microphone just one, this time so if you could step up to that mic that would be great as you can see we have cspan here filming also making an audio recording of the event. And feel free to leave your chairs where they are. We have more events coming up this afternoon so youre welcome to stick around all day. And please to welcome joe this afternoon to discuss her important new book guilded sufficientist about those ho fight for the women right to vote in the early part of the last strig. Among the more than 200 social tirings involved in the movement she writes ab host of familiar names including after beaumont and vaunter build remieppedz us what a radical explosive notion the wells vote was in the early 1900s and how in her own word theres a moment where generations cross paths and an idea that once seems radical loses its toxins. Publishers e weekly is called this book one of the top books for fal
Where they are. We have more events this afternoon, so youre welcome to stick around all day. Im pleased to welcome johan in neuman this afternoon to discuss her important new book gilded sufferragists about a group of new york socialites who fought for the becames right to vote. Among the more than 200 social figures she writes bass host or familiar names, and she reminds us what a radical, explosive notion the womens vote was in the early 1900s 1900s and and hn her own words, theres a moment when generations cross paths and aned ay that once seem radical loses its toxins. This is call one of the top books of the fall from independent publishing houses. Neuman is a scholar in residence at American University and an awardwinning journalist who has wherein for Los Angeles Times and usa today. Going to be in conversation with jude woodruff who she node from covering the white house. Judy is worked as correspondent for nbc, cnn, npr and many a places. He me welcome johan Joanna Neuman and
And the Seneca Falls Convention that was called by Elizabeth Cady stanton in new york. And that, there she came out in Public Discourse and what about the idea that people that women should have the vote. And it reminds us of how controversial it was. Her cosponsor said that she feared that this proposal would make us look ridiculous, and her husband, Henry Stanton who was a new york legislator, refused to come. Frederick douglass, the famed orator did, and he defended it. But it was a shock and most newspapers that even covered the event did so with disdain and mockery. There are other historians that position the movement beginning earlier, in the 1840s when people like lucy stone and the sisters from south carolina, began to speak publicly about antislavery and suffrage, womens suffrage. And they were sometimes pelted with vegetables. The idea of women speaking was still some controversy over in any event, the Womens Movement in the United States really came out of abolitionism. It
Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. And youre watching booktv on cspan2. We are on the campus of the university of arizona talking with professors here who are also authors. Want to introduce you to Linda Lumsden who is an associate professor of journalism here at the university of arizona and the author of this book, inez the life and times of Inez Milholland. Who was she, professor lumsden . Guest well, she was, one, the sole martyr for womens suffrage in the united states. She was arguably the most famous female political figure of the 1910s. And she was the epitome of the new woman which was a group that really were the first feminists of the 20th century. Among other things, she was as vassar graduate, she was a lawyer who had the fight to be able to practice. She was a free lover, part of the Greenwich Village crowd. She was a war correspondent. She was a socialist. She was an advocate for prostitute