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[449]p. 450p. 451p. 452p. 453p. 454p. 455p. 456p. 457p. 458p. 459p. 460p. 461p. 462p. 463p. 464p. 465p. 466p. 467p. 468p. 469p. 470p. 471p. 472p. 473p. 474p. 475p. 476p. 477p. 478p. 479p. 480Issue Table of ContentsSocial Forces, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Dec., 2001), pp. 381-758Front Matter [pp. 508-712]Models and Indicators [pp. 381-410]Determinants of the Growth of the State: War and Taxation in Early Modern France and England [pp. 411-448]Stirring up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866-1914 [pp. 449-480]Replete and Desolate Markets: Poland, East Germany, and the New Religious Paradigm [pp. 481-507]The Beloved Myth: Protestantism and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe [pp. 509-553]Explaining Black Southern Migrants' Advantage in Family Stability: The Role of Selective Migration [pp. 555-571]African Americans and Immigrants in Northern Cities: The Effects of Relative Group Size on Occupational Standing in 1920 [pp. 573-604]Race, Region, and Religious Involvement: A Comparative Study of Whites and African Americans [pp. 605-631]Race/Ethnic-Specific Variation in Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization [pp. 633-654]The Glass Ceiling Effect [pp. 655-681]Careers Inside Organizations: A Comparative Study of Promotion Determination in Reforming China [pp. 683-711]Gender Differences in Mathematical Trajectories [pp. 713-732]Book ReviewsReview: untitled [pp. 733-734]Review: untitled [pp. 734-736]Review: untitled [pp. 736-737]Review: untitled [pp. 737-739]Review: untitled [pp. 740-741]Review: untitled [pp. 741-743]Review: untitled [pp. 743-745]Review: untitled [pp. 745-746]Review: untitled [pp. 746-747]Review: untitled [pp. 748-749]Review: untitled [pp. 749-751]Review: untitled [pp. 751-752]Back Matter [pp. 753-758]Stirring up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations,1866-1914Author(s): Holly J. McCammonSource: Social Forces, Vol. 80, No. 2 (Dec., 2001), pp. 449-480Published by: University of North Carolina PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2675586Accessed: 15/02/2009 17:38Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available athttp://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unlessyou have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and youmay use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained athttp://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=uncpress.Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printedpage of such transmission.JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. We work with thescholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform thatpromotes the discovery and use of these resources. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected] of North Carolina Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access toSocial Forces.http://www.jstor.orgStirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866 1914* HOLLY J. MCCAMMON, Vanderbilt University Abstract In nearly every state around the turn of the twentieth century, suffragists mobilized in grassroots suffrage organizations to secure the vote for women. While movement researchers have theorized that political opportunities are important in explaining why movements emerge, the results from an examination of the emergence of the state suffrage movements show that the mobilization of various resources along with the way in which pro-suffrage arguments were framed were instrumental in stirring up suffrage sentiment. Political opportunities did little to explain the emergence of the suffrage movements. The article concludes that movement researchers need to consider that historically contingent circumstances may determine which factors bring about movement mobilization. As they passed through Nevada in 1895 on a western speaking tour, Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw lectured numerous times on why women should have the right to vote. They urged those attending their talks to form their own state-wide suffrage organization to work toward broadening the franchise to women. Not too long after their visit, a sizable group met in Reno to form the Nevada State Equal Suffrage Association (Earl 1976; Smith 1975). In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century across the U.S., individuals - mainly women, but some men as well - joined together, just as did the women and men of Nevada, * This work benefited from funding from the National Science Foundation (SBR-9631520), the University Research Council at Vanderbilt University, and the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University. In addition, I am grateful to Karen Campbell, Wayne Santoro, and anonymous reviewers at Social Forces for helpful comments and to Ellen Granberg and Chris Mowery for their careful research assistance. Please direct correspondence to Holly McCammon, Department of Sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235. E-mail: [email protected]. (? The University of North Carolina Press Social Forces, December 2001, 80(2):449-480450 I Social Forces 80:2, December 2001 to seek formal political rights for women. In fact, in every state except Wyoming, suffiagists organized state suffrage associations.' In some states, like South Carolina, these organizations remained relatively small with at most 500 dues-paying members in the 1910s, but in other states, like Massachusetts and New York, thousands joined state organizations to work for woman suffrage (National American Woman Suffrage Association 1912, 1915-19). This state-level, grassroots suffrage organizing presents an opportunity for a comparative study of the circumstances in which individuals decide to mobilize to pursue a collective goal. An examination of suffrage organizing across states shows that some suffragists organized early in the overall movement, while others organized later (greater detail on this is given below).


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