Title Alva Vanderbilt Belmont : unlikely champion of women's rights / Sylvia D. Hoffert

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages) : illustrations Contents An Impossible Child -- Every Inch a General -- A Sex Battle -- Immortalizing the Lady in Affecting Prose -- Belmont's Orphan Child -- The Last Word -- Postscript: My Turn -- Appendix: Belmont's Financial Contributions to Woman's Rights Summary A New York socialite and feminist, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. Her resolve to get her own way regardless of the consequences stood her in good stead when she joined the American woman suffrage movement in 1909. Thereafter, she used her wealth, her administrative expertise, and her social celebrity to help convince Congress to pass the 19th Amendment and then to persuade the exhausted leaders of the National Woman's Party to initiate a world wide equal rights campaign. Sylvia D. Hoffert argues that Belmont was a feminist visionary and tha Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933. Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 -- Political and social views SUBJECT Belmont, Alva, 1853-1933 fast Belmont, Alva 1853-1933 gnd Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd Subject Feminists -- United States -- Biography Suffragists -- United States -- Biography Women political activists -- United States -- Biography Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century Socialites -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography Rich people -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women. Feminists Political and social views Rich people Socialites Suffragists Women political activists Women -- Suffrage Women's rights Frauenbewegung New York (State) -- New York United States Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 0253005604 9780253005601 9786613528254 6613528250

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