Recasting the Vote

Cathleen D. Cahill's Recasting the Vote is an important and timely contribution to the history of women's voting rights that centers Black, Native American, Chinese American, and Latina women. Telling a new history of the suffrage movement, Cahill weaves in the life histories of women such as the Chinese-born suffragist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee; Nina Otero-Warren, who came from a prominent New Mexican Hispano family; Carrie Williams Clifford, a Black woman from Ohio who resided in the nation's capital; Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, a North Dakotan of Turtle Mountain Chippewa and French descent; Laura Cornelius Kellogg, an Oneida activist from Wisconsin; and Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Sa), a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) writer. The result is a more comprehensive history that rightly and refreshingly de-centers white women. By including Asian American, Latina, and Native American women, Cahill helps widen the history of woman suffrage to include the West and Midwest as much as

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