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BackStory · November 2, 2018 · 54m

Women in Politics: A History of Breaking Barriers

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Women in American politics from the founding to the present. The hosts examine how women exercised political power long before they could vote — through petitioning, organizing, and shaping public opinion.

Highlights

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Women were politically active long before they could vote
The hosts show that women organized abolition societies, temperance movements, and labor unions decades before suffrage. The vote was a capstone of existing political activity, not its beginning.
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Excluded groups develop alternative forms of political power
Denied the vote, women developed alternative political tools: moral suasion, consumer boycotts, public petitions, community organizing. These tools were often more effective than voting.
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