EAN: 9781479830947

PUBLIC FACES SECRET LIVES - WENDY L ROUSE KARTO...

Honorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize 2023 Judy Grahn
Award-Publishing Triangle Finalist Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the
history of the struggle for women's right to vote The women's suffrage movement  much like many
other civil rights movements  has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public
Faces  Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that  contrary to popular belief  the suffrage
movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities.
However  owing to the constant pressure to present a respectable public image  suffrage leaders
publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women's suffrage more
palatable to the public. Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to
assert their identities and legacies by challenging traditional concepts of domesticity  family
space  and death in both subtly subversive and radically transformative ways. Queer suffragists
also built lasting alliances and developed innovative strategies in order to protect their most
intimate relationships  ones that were ultimately crucial to the success of the suffrage
movement. Public Faces  Secret Lives is the first work to truly recenter queer figures in the
women's suffrage movement  highlighting their immense contributions as well as their numerous
sacrifices.

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