![]() ![]() ![]() 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 reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the suffrage movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. The women's suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. ![]() Public Faces, Secret Lives restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women's right to vote. This event is co-sponsored by the Agnes Scott College WGSS Department. Lauran Whitworth for a discussion of Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement. This event takes place on crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. Register here.Ĭharis welcomes Wendy L. ![]()
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