In this edited volume Stephanie Mitchell brings together scholars from across the Americas to analyze the enfranchisement of women in their various national and territorial contexts. Using the cases of Costa Rica, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico, Women's Suffrage in the Americas draws on a vast, collective archive to better understand efforts to extend to women the vote from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It is no small task to engage across geographic, political, and temporal boundaries as this collection does, and the 13 case studies ably illuminate the many shared challenges, organizing strategies, and setbacks while also highlighting shared narratives of women's enfranchisement across widely diverse contexts of struggle.
Aiming “to construct the first meta-narrative of women's suffrage in the Americas” (p. 3), the volume focuses concurrently on the shared historical trajectories, assumptions, and divisions...
