Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States by Chmielewski, Wendy E.
Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States by Chmielewski, Wendy E.

Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States

Reveals the untold story of over 6,000 women who ran for office between 1850-1920, expanding our understanding...
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Author: Wendy E. Chmielewski
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States by Chmielewski, Wendy E.

Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States

$59.50
Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States by Chmielewski, Wendy E.

Her Hat Was in the Ring: How Women Won the Right to Run for Office in the United States

$59.50
Author: Wendy E. Chmielewski
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Reveals the untold story of over 6,000 women who ran for office between 1850-1920, expanding our understanding of women's fight for full political citizenship beyond suffrage

Her Hat Was in the Ring details the fascinating story of the thousands of women who ran for elective office in the United States between 1850 and 1920. Contrary to popular belief, women's right to vote and the right to hold elective office weren't always tied to one another. Whether women could become candidates, and for which offices, was determined by each state. For several decades after 1850, women ran for local and some state offices without themselves sometimes having the right to vote, motivated by the desire to advance women's rights and serve their communities as well as personal ambition.

Drawing on newspapers, state government reports, historical and biographical archives, and other resources, historians Wendy E. Chmielewski and Jill Norgren trace the legal, social, and cultural shifts across the country that made it possible for women to gain election to political office. This history is told through the stories of the trailblazing women candidates who ran in thousands of elective campaigns. Chmielewski and Norgren examine how these women were received in their communities, in male-dominated political parties and legislatures, and what administrative and policy contributions they made once elected.

This book expands our understanding of American women's demand for full citizenship, a struggle that included the successful battle for the right to elective office. At once comprehensive and deeply compelling, Her Hat Was in the Ring illuminates the revolutionary efforts of these candidates throughout this virtually unknown, yet fascinating chapter in American history.

Author: Wendy E. Chmielewski,Jill Norgren
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781479847051

About the Author
Wendy E. Chmielewski (Author)
Wendy E. Chmielewski served as the George R. Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection from 1988 through 2020. She is a co-editor of Jane Addams and the Practice of Democracy and numerous other works. Chmielewski is a co-founder of the "Her Hat Was in the Ring" digital history project.

Jill Norgren (Author)
Jill Norgren is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and the author of numerous books including Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would be President, and Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers: Lives in the Law. She is a longtime member of New York's Women Writing Women's Lives Seminar and a co-founder of the "Her Hat Was in the Ring" digital history project.


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