{"product_id":"public-faces-secret-lives-a-queer-history-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement-9781479813940","title":"Public Faces  Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eHonorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize  2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle Finalist  Restores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for womens right to vote  The womens suffrage movement  much like many other civil rights movements  has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces  Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that  contrary to popular belief  the suffrage movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. However  owing to the constant pressure to present a respectable public image  suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make womens suffrage more palatable to the public.  Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to assert their identities and legacies by challenging traditional concepts of domesticity  family  space  and death in both subtly subversive and radically transformative ways. Queer suffragists also built lasting alliances and developed innovative strategies in order to protect their most intimate relationships  ones that were ultimately crucial to the success of the suffrage movement. Public Faces  Secret Lives is the first work to truly recenter queer figures in the womens suffrage movement  highlighting their immense contributions as well as their numerous sacrifices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647562604597,"sku":"ByrdShop_147981394X","price":34.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781479813940.jpg?v=1781692955","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/public-faces-secret-lives-a-queer-history-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement-9781479813940","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}