The Other Suffragettes: Socialist Feminists in Indiana

Event Details

When some nationally–recognized suffragists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton were known to condescend poor and working–class women of color during the
suffrage movement, Hoosier suffragists redirected the goals of the suffrage movement
to support their concerns about labor, temperance, prostitution, and the rights of women
to lead churches. Janine’s talk illuminates the resiliency of the suffrage movement and
its tensions along the lines of class and race. Her stories illuminate working–class white
women, immigrants and African American women who worked in different types of
political organizations but also actively advocated for women’s suffrage as necessary
for them to continue their work.

Janine Giordano Drake is Clinical Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University
(Bloomington), where she specializes in United States social, labor and religious history.
She is co–editor of The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working
Class (Illinois Press, 2015) and has authored several other articles and book chapters
on Social Christianity, the Left, and the Religious Left in the twentieth century. Her
current book project explores the rivalry between the labor movement and the American
churches for moral authority over the industrial working classes. At Indiana University, in
addition to teaching and research, Janine serves as the liaison between the History
department and the Advance College Project. In that capacity, she gets to travel around
the state and support high school social studies teachers in teaching college–level
history