Votes for College Women

Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign

Kelly L. Marino

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English

New York University Press
09 April 2024

Gender studies: women; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Elections & referenda; Political campaigning & advertising

Explores the College Equal Suffrage League’s work to advance the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment

The woman suffrage movement is often portrayed as having been led and organized by middle-aged women and mothers in stuffy, formal settings. This dominant account grossly neglects a significant demographic within the movement—college women. Between 1870 and 1910, the proportion of college women in the United States rose from 21 to 40 percent. By 1880, there were 155 private colleges in the Northeast and the South for female students and numerous coeducational institutions in the West. The widespread extension of academic training for women helped spur a well-organized campaign for female voting rights on college campuses, where suffragists found a new audience and stage to earn respect and support.

Votes for College Women examines archives from the College Equal Suffrage League (CESL), established in 1900 as an affiliate of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to illustrate the outsize and dynamic role that young women played in the woman suffrage movement. The book vividly illustrates how the CESL’s campaigns served a dual purpose: not only did they invigorate the Nineteenth Amendment campaign at a crucial moment, but they also brought about a profound transformation in the culture of women’s organizing and higher education. Furthermore, Kelly L. Marino argues that the CESL’s campaigns set trends in youth activism and helped lay the groundwork for later and more well-known college protests against gender inequality. Fascinating and timely, Votes for College Women shows how these brave women solidified the campus and the classroom as arenas for civic and social activism.

By: Kelly L. Marino
Imprint: New York University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781479825196
ISBN 10: 1479825190
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kelly L. Marino is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Sacred Heart University and the Coordinator of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.

Reviews for Votes for College Women: Alumni, Students, and the Woman Suffrage Campaign

Marino looks beyond the northeast’s famous Seven Sisters to reveal that female college students defined the suffrage movement by increasing its credibility, developing innovative tactics, and connecting women across class lines. Her new research on historically Black and co-ed schools across the United States positions women’s voting rights reformers as precursors to more well-known campus activists later in the 20th century. Marino’s marvelous book demonstrates that the suffrage movement not only affected women, but also transformed the development of social movements, higher education, and American political life. -- Allison K. Lange, author of Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women's Suffrage Movement