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For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.
Join us for a discussion with Allison K. Lange about her new book, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Historians and American Girls podcast hosts Allison Horrocks and Mary Mahoney will lead a Q&A with our burning questions about women’s voting rights.
Why is Susan B. Anthony one of the most famous female activists in US history? Did Americans really think that suffragists were as masculine and aggressive as anti-suffrage cartoons suggested? And, a century later, what is the legacy of these visual debates about gender and power?
At the end, we’ll invite you to propose your own questions!
Allison K. Lange is an associate professor of history at the Wentworth Institute of Technology. She received her PhD in history from Brandeis University. Lange’s book, Picturing Political Power: Images in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, was published in May 2020 by the University of Chicago Press. The book focuses on the ways that women’s rights activists and their opponents used images to define gender and power during the suffrage movement. Various institutions have supported her work, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the American Antiquarian Society. Her writing has appeared in Imprint, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. Lange has also worked with the National Women’s History Museum and curated exhibitions for the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Map Center. For the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, she is curating exhibitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society and Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
