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Living Power

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Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of the women's suffrage movement in the United States in the decades leading to the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920. Artists and activists in t...
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  • 22 September 2026
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Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of the women's suffrage movement in the United States in the decades leading to the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920. Artists and activists in this period envisioned, and even materialized, new forms of inclusive, modern political citizenship. But at the same time, many progressive advocates premised the right to vote on whiteness, splitting suffragists along racial lines. Lauren Kroiz analyzes how artworks—including Charlotte Perkins Gilman's design for soap trading cards, Adelaide Johnson's marble portrait busts, Anne Brigman's photographs in the California wilderness, and Meta Warrick Fuller's sculptures of mothers and children—interrogated the unstable divide between subjecthood and objecthood at the heart of demands for political agency. Expanding the scholarship of feminist art, Kroiz traces a history that remains both pivotal and unresolved.

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Price: $45.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 22 September 2026
ISBN: 9780520418226
Format: eBook
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Contents
 
Introduction
1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Living Laundry Soaps
2. White Marble and White Women: Adelaide Johnson's Portrait Monument
3. Hokus Pocus and Freedom: Anne Brigman's Sierra Photographs
4. Meta Warrick Fuller's Silent Appeal
Conclusion
 
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index