Kirjahaku

Decades before white women won the right to vote throughout the United States, they first secured that right in its Western region—beginning in Wyoming in 1869. Many scholars have studied why and how the Western states enfranchised women before the Eastern ones; this book instead examines the influence of the West on the national US suffrage movement. As the campaign for woman suffrage intensified, US suffragists often invoked the West in their verbal, visual, and embodied advocacy. In deploying this region as a persuasive resource, they challenged the traditional meanings of the West and East, thus gaining additional persuasive strategies. Tiffany Lewis’s analysis of the public discourse, images, and performances of suffragists and their opponents shows that the West played a pivotal role in the successful campaign for white women’s enfranchisement that culminated in 1920. In addition to offering a history of this political movement’s rhetorical strategy, Lewis illustrates the usefulness of region in protest—the way social movements can tactically employ region to motivate social change.

Born and raised in the infamous Duval County (Jacksonville FL) as an only child to a single mother, Tiffany Lewis was the girl who just wanted to have fun, live life and experience it all. In this memoir, Tiffany breaks her silence and shares her trials, tragedies, and triumphs. In spite of all the challenges she has faced throughout her life, Tiffany has persevered and begun the healing process to becoming mentally, emotionally & spiritually whole Rooted in her faith in God, Tiffany now courageously speaks out about the struggles of her life, in hopes to give encouragement and inspiration to others.