Sources and Further Reading

Secondary Works 

Adams, Katherine H. and Michael L. Keene. Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 

Barakso, Maryann. Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. 

Davis, Flora. Moving the Mountain: The Women’s Movement in America Since 1960. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 

DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 

Dye, Nancy Schrom. As Equals and as Sisters: Feminism, the Labor Movement, and the Women’s Trade Union League of New York. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980. 

Egge, Sara. Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870-1920. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2018. 

Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States. 1959. Enlarged edition with a foreword by Ellen Fitzpatrick. Cambridge: Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1996. 

Fowler, Robert Booth, and Spencer Jones. “Carrie Chapman Catt and the Last Years of the Struggle for Woman Suffrage: ‘The Winning Plan.’” In Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited, edited by Jean H. Baker. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 

Ginzberg, Lori D. Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009. 

Gordon, Ann D., ed. African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 

“History of Women in the U.S. Congress.” Center for American Women and Politics. https://cawp.rutgers.edu/history-women-us-congress. 

Hudson, David, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton, ed. The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008. 

“Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame.” Iowa Department of Human Rights. https://humanrights. iowa.gov/cas/icsw/events-recognition/iowa-womens-hall-fame. 

Lawrence, Noah. “Since It is My Right, I Would Like to Have It: Edna Griffin and the Katz Drug Store Desegregation Movement.” Annals of Iowa 67, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 298-330. 

“Legislators.” The Iowa Legislature. https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislators.  

Mollano, Kara. “Race, Roads, and Right-of-Way: A Campaign to Block Highway Construction in Fort Madison, 1967-1976.” Annals of Iowa 68, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 255-97. 

Morgan, Francesca. Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 

Noun, Louise R. More Strong-Minded Women: Iowa Feminists Tell Their Stories. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992. 

——. Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in Iowa. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1969. 

“Ola Babcock Miller.” State Library of Iowa. http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/about/ history/miller.  

Orleck, Annelise. Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 

“Research Inventory.” Political Parity. https://www.politicalparity.org/research/research-inventory/. 

Rosen, Ruth. The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America. New York: Viking, 2000. 

Schenken, Suzanne O’Dea. Legislators and Politicians: Iowa’s Women Lawmakers. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1995. 

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998. 

Tetrault, Lisa. “The Incorporation of American Feminism: Suffragists and the Postbellum Lyceum.” Journal of American History 96, no. 4 (March 2010): 1027-1056. 

——. The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 

Van Voris, Jacqueline. Carrie Chapman Catt: A Public Life. New York: The Feminist Press at The City University of New York, 1987. 

Weaver, Janet. “From Barrio to ‘¡Boicoteo!’: The Emergence of Mexican American Activism in Davenport, 1917-1970.” Annals of Iowa 68, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 215-54. 

“Women in State Legislatures.” National Conference of State Legislatures. http://www.ncsl.org/legislators-staff/legislators/womens-legislative-network.aspx. 

Collections at the Iowa Women’s Archives 

A Political Dialogue: Iowa’s Women Legislators Oral Histories. 

Clark, Betty Jean, Papers. 

Cohen, Gertrude, Papers. 

Doderer, Minnette, Papers. 

Gruhn, Josephine, Papers. 

Gunderson, Helen, Papers. 

Hammond, Johnie, Papers. 

Hannon, Beverly A., Papers. 

Harper, Patricia, Papers. 

Larsen, Sonja, Papers. 

League of Women Voters of Cedar Rapids-Marion Records. 

League of Women Voters of Iowa Records. 

League of Women Voters of Johnson County Records. 

League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Des Moines Records. 

Lipsky, Joan, Papers. 

Lloyd-Jones, Jean, Papers. 

Martin, Mona Kadel, Papers. 

Miller, Opal, Papers. 

Nelson, Gladys, Papers. 

Neuhauser, Mary C., Papers. 

Odell, Mary Jane, Papers. 

Shivvers, Vera, Papers. 

Smith, Mary Louise, Papers. 

Szymoniak, Elaine, Papers. 

Tinsman, Maggie, Papers. 

Torrence-Laughlin, Janis, Papers. 

Zimmerman, Jo Ann, Papers.