The rhetoric of newspapers provided the suffragists their principal means of communication. The eleven essays of this volume demonstrate how the suffrage press was able to educate an audience of women readers, create a sense of community among them, and help alter their self-image.

...how the suffrage battle was interwoven with constitutional issues at the federal and state level and how the suffrage struggle played out in different regions, especially the West and the South, as well as the activities of opponents to women's voting.