However, individual men’s interests in the idea of women’s rights had their roots in diverse ideologies.”Īs a primer on gender equality in the West, Enss’s No Place for a Woman provides the reader with chapters organized geographically and chronologically, each peppered with anecdotal timelines, sidebars and biographical profiles of women influential to the Western suffrage movement. Enss writes: “Wyoming Territory’s motives for extending the vote to women probably had more to do with publicity and attracting female settlers to the territory than with any desire to establish a more egalitarian society. The first to vote in a general election were women in the Territory of Wyoming. Chris Enss’s latest history book, No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West (TwoDot, $26.95), brings voice to those courageous and determined women, many of whom received suffrage up to a half century earlier than their American sisters because of progressive and practical politics in Western territories and states. Anthony Suffrage Amendment, but their historic votes represent the culmination of three generations of women seeking suffrage under the Constitution, and many of the women who led the charge lived in the Western United States. The Tennessee State Legislature receives credit for being the 31st state to ratify the Susan B. On August 18, 2020, the citizenry of the United States will commemorate the centennial of ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution and American women’s right to vote. No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West by Chris Enss (TwoDot, $26.95)

Wicked Women by Chris Enss