Off the Shelf-- Public Faces, Secret Lives

 Thanks to Netgalley and NYU Press for the opportunity to read and review this title.  Wendy Rouse writes a detailed, well-researched history of the Suffragist movement in the US and the role of queer people in the movement.  This is not a dry history.  The author brings these women to life, sharing their lives, their loves, and their losses.  

This is an inclusive volume, detailing the experiences of women of color and indigenous women.  The battle within the Suffragist movement over maintaining feminine respectability, pushing out non-white women, and the erasure from history of the loving relationships of many of these women is documented.

I greatly respect the author's effort to shed light on this history and update history with the truth of the movement.  

The opinions expressed are mine alone and are freely given.