Deeds Not Words: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's Suffrage

Sandra Sider
4.06
17 ratings 11 reviews
An unusually creative honoring of the 19th Amendment's centennial—it was ratified August 18, 1920. Twenty-nine award-winning textile artists from across the United States each crafted a quilt celebrating women’s suffrage. These dazzlingly varied, sometimes troubling, always inspiring artworks reflect the long and continuing fight for equal rights for all. Introductions summarize the history of women’s suffrage, an even more complicated subject than you might think, then dozens of art quilts continue the learning. Male artists are included to acknowledge the support of many men for women’s suffrage, and African American artists and suffragists are recognized as well. Although the 19th Amendment made a huge stride forward for women’s rights, in many voting situations that right extended to white women only because of prejudicial practices. All royalties will be shared equally between the New England Quilt Museum and Texas Quilt Museum.
Genres: NonfictionHistoryArtSewingPoliticsCraftsWomens
96 Pages

Community Reviews:

5 star
3 (18%)
4 star
12 (71%)
3 star
2 (12%)
2 star
0 (0%)
1 star
0 (0%)

Readers also enjoyed

Other books by Sandra Sider

Lists with this book

Impossible Saints
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A Time For Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen
Women's Suffrage
413 books • 123 voters
Life in a Medieval City
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
Anatomy of COVID Calamity
Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival
A Room of One’s Own
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
The Female Eunuch
Feminist Writings
136 books • 9 voters