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| UNVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA |
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| Lanham, New York, London |
Library of
Congress Cataloging-in -Publication Data
Ford, Linda, 1949
Iron-Jawed Angels: the suffrage militancy of the
National Woman's Party, 1912-1920
299 p. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Women-Suffrage-United States-History-
20th century. 2.United States-Politics and
government-1913-1921. I. Title
JK1896.F67
1991
Iron-Jawed
Angels (1991) is a study of how the National
Woman’s Party’s militancy evolved as a reaction
to instransigent, male-centered government during the
feminist movement of the early 1900s. The militant
National Woman’s Party started out as aggressive
political 
lobbyists in the era of
progressive government reform. Their lobbying got sticky
as they brought it into a period of intensive war (WWI)
hysteria. What evolved was the use of an effective
strategy of nonviolent civil disobedience as
anti-government dissenters. Their feminist militancy and
readiness to resist (government) authority and break the
law for women’s rights developed gradually. The
militant women represented a wide variety of
individuals—scientists, pilots, homemakers,
librarians and revolutionaries--all seriously committed
to fighting the oppression of all-male government, and
all in turn victims of those oppressors when they reacted
to the threat of unnatural "iron-jawed" females
by jailing, mauling and force-feeding them.
