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Through Women's Eyes
American Women and U.S. Politics
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Professor Ellen DuBois, an expert in the history of U.S. women in politics,
specializing in the history of the suffrage movement in the United States and American feminism, will give two lectures Thursday, November 20, 2008:
From the Nineteenth Amendment to 2008: The Ambiguities of Women in Politics and How Women Won the Vote: The Perspective from
the [North] West.
From the Nineteenth Amendment to 2008: The Ambiguities of Women in Politics
November 20, 2008 – 12:00pm
205 Monroe Hall
Eastern Washington University
Cheney, Washington
Admission is FREE
A discussion of the role of women in the American political scene since the 1919 passage of the Nineteenth Amendment
to the United States Constitution. The 19th amendment prohibited state and the federal governments in the U.S. from denying any citizen the
right to vote because of that citizen's sex.
How Women Won the Vote: The Perspective from the [North] West
November 20, 2008 – 7:00pm
Eric A. Johnston Auditorium
Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
2316 West First Avenue
Spokane, Washington
Admission is FREE to teachers, students, and MAC members.
Right on the heels of a heated presidential election which included a female nominee for vice-president, we step back to a time when
women could not vote let alone hold public office. This lecture will focus on how women in the Northwest struggled for the vote as we prepare
for the centennial of Washington's suffrage.
Selected Publications by Ellen Dubois