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Title: My Dear Mrs. Ames

My Dear Mrs. Ames

A Study of Suffragist Cartoonist Blanche Ames Ames

by Anne Biller Clark (Author)
©2001 Monographs X, 232 Pages
History & Political Science
Series: Writing About Women, Volume 26

Summary

She was rich, beautiful, and happily married, but Blanche Ames was also a political reformer par excellence who created political cartoons to defend the right of women to vote, attacked male politicians who opposed woman suffrage through political action committees, and pursued the right of women to control the number and spacing of their families at a time when birth control was anathema to the minds of many.

Details

Pages
X, 232
Year
2001
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820445861
Language
English
Keywords
political reformer woman suffrage birth control
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2001. X, 232 pp., 6 ill.

Biographical notes

Anne Biller Clark (Author)

The Author: Anne Biller Clark received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts and has been teaching history at the University of Hartford since then. She is deeply interested in the development of moral and ethical thinking in her subjects and also in the creation of cartoon iconography to support unconventional causes such as women's rights. A cartoonist herself, she is the mother of three children and a resident of Amherst, Massachusetts.

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