| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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The Weight of Their Votes: Southern Women and Political Leverage in the 1920s. By Lorraine Gates Schuyler. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. xvi, 336 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3066-6. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5776-2.)

Known historically for its hostility to women's rights and decidedly antidemocratic political institutions, the South seems an "unlikely place" to explore the impact of women's suffrage (p. 2). Ironically, however, the Nineteenth Amendment may have been especially important in the South, where disfranchisement produced extremely low voter turnouts and women could serve as critical swing voters. As Lorraine Gates Schuyler demonstrates in this important book, southern white women in the 1920s opened up the political process, voted, earned the attention of political leaders, and affected political outcomes.

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