Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote

by Johanna Neuman

Book Overview

New York City's elite women who turned a feminist cause into a fashionable revolution

In the early twentieth century over two hundred of New York's most glamorous socialites joined the suffrage movement. Their names--Astor, Belmont, Rockefeller, Tiffany, Vanderbilt, Whitney and the like--carried enormous public value. These women were the media darlings of their day because of the extravagance of their costume balls and the opulence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479837067
• ISBN13: 9781479837069
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"