Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In "Battling Miss Bolsheviki" Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical revolutions that were raging in other parts of the world. In the decades leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment, women activists had enjoyed great success as reformers, creating a political subculture with settlement houses and women's clubs as its cornerstones. Female volunteers piloted...
Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In "Battling Miss Bolsheviki" Kirsten Marie D...