Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland

Linda J. Lumsden

Indiana University Press, Jul 8, 2004 - Social Science - 280 pages

Inez Milholland was the most glamorous suffragist of the 1910s and a fearless crusader for women's rights. Moving in radical circles, she agitated for social change in the prewar years, and she epitomized the independent New Woman of the time. Her death at age 30 while stumping for suffrage in California in 1916 made her the sole martyr of the American suffrage movement. Her death helped inspire two years of militant protests by the National Woman's Party, including the picketing of the White House, which led in 1920 to ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. Lumsden's study of this colorful and influential figure restores to history an important link between the homebound women of the 19th century and the iconoclastic feminists of the 1970s.

Contents

• NOTES: 64
• Epilogue: 67
• Icon: 79
• Martyr: 89
• Campaign: 101
• Execution: 110
• Pacifist: 122
• Italy: 133
• Crusader: 143
• Marriage: 152
• Love: 161
• Riot: 172
• Spectacle: 183
• Lawyer: 191
• Villager: 199
• Strike: 209
• Vassar: 224
• London: 233
• Childhood: 244
• Introduction: 252

Popular passages

Page 247 - ... amazing combination of wisdom and youthfulness, of humor and ability, and innocence and self-reliance, which absolutely belies everything you will read in the story-books or any other description of womankind. They are of course all self-supporting and independent, and they enjoy the adventure of life; the full, reliant, audacious way in which they go about makes you wonder if the new woman isn't to be a very splendid sort of person. . . .They talk much about the "Human Sex...‎

About the author

Linda J. Lumsden is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Broadcasting at Western Kentucky University, where she teaches journalism and women's studies. She is author of Rampant Women: Suffragists and the Right of Assembly and Adirondack Craftspeople.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Inez: The Life and Times of Inez Milholland
• Author: Linda J. Lumsden
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0253110963, 9780253110961
• Length: 280 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General; Social Science / Women's Studies