Shannon M. Risk

The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates

A Crusader for Women's Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work

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Produktbeschreibung

This biography chronicles the life of Elizabeth Upham Yates who fostered a kind of "American dream" for the single, educated woman in the industrial era. She served as a missionary to China, and then blazed women's suffrage and temperance campaign trails for thirty years as the protege of Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Frances Willard.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9781666929188
• ISBN-10: 1666929182
• Artikelnr.: 67190674

Autorenporträt

Shannon M. Risk is associate professor of history and directs the public history and women's studies minors at Niagara University in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Life of Elizabeth Upham Yates
Chapter 1. Growing Up in Maine, 1857--1880: Steeped in Methodism
Chapter 2. Missionary, 1880--1885: Yates' Role in a Modernizing China
Chapter 3. A New Path, 1885-1896: Lecturing for Temperance and Women's
Suffrage
Chapter 4. In Between the Nation and Maine, 1896-1908: Balancing Home and
National Work
Chapter 5. "The Last General of Rhode Island," 1909-1920: Leading the Final
Suffrage Effort
Chapter 6. Victory and Defeat, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment and Running
for Lieutenant
Governor of Rhode Island
Chapter 7. Towards the Setting Sun, 1920-1942: Battling Disability in
Trying Times