Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5703261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Davi (0000-0002-1043-4190), Susan R Davis (0000-0002-2955-0415, University of Delaware, corresponding author), S Davis (0000-0003-1795-2027) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 952-952 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jas353 |
| OpenAlex | W2312278930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The subject of this biography is not widely known as a leader of the campaign for women's rights. Many may not be familiar with her connection with women's suffrage or feminism but instead remember her as a personality of the Gilded Age, an immensely wealthy socialite who owned and helped design some of the most fashionable mansions in New York and Newport, Rhode Island, and who resided in a dazzling world of luxury and privilege. Indeed, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont seems more like a character in an Edith Wharton novel than a participant in the campaign for women's rights. Nonetheless, Sylvia D. Hoffert has made a convincing case that Belmont's work on behalf of women's suffrage was critical to the movement's success. Using her background of wealth and privilege as well as her resentment of being a female in a male-dominated world, she developed a strategy that put the movement in the spotlight at the same time that she provided crucial financial support
Biography · Champion · Feminism · Political science · Politics · Privilege (computing · Resentment · Sociology · Subject (documents · Suffrage · Gender Studies · History · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |