A Woman's Point Of View: Some Roads To Peace by Harriot Stanton Blatch. The Womans Press. 1920. 5" x 7 1/2" 179 pages Hardcover with no dust jacket. Moderate cover edge wear, but worn through the surface covering on the front cover tips. There is a quarter inch diameter white spot on the top of the spine. The spine label is barely legible and also appears to have some loss, but loss to none of the text on the label. Previous owner name and dated 1924 in heavy pencil on the first blank page. Also erasure marks on the first blank page. I found a few marginal check marks in pencil in the text. I see no other previous owner markings. No tears, folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight with no looseness to pages. Not ex-library, not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. sJE12a
"Harriot Eaton Blatch (née Stanton; January 20, 1856 – November 20, 1940) was an American writer and suffragist. She was the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Blatch sought to reinvigorate the American women's suffrage movement, which had stagnated. She initially joined the leadership of the Women's Trade Union League. In 1907, she founded the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women (later renamed the Women's Political Union), to recruit working class women into the suffrage movement. The core membership of the league comprised 20,000 factory, laundry, and garment workers from the Lower East Side of New York City. The organization successfully lobbied for an equal pay resolution for New York teachers.[2]
Through this group, Blatch organized and led the 1910 New York suffrage parade. Blatch succeeded in mobilizing many working-class women, even as she continued to collaborate with prominent society women. She could organize militant street protests while still working expertly in backroom politics to neutralize the opposition of Tammany Hall politicians who feared the women would vote for prohibition.[4] During her years advocating for women's rights, Blatch also published a book called Mobilizing Woman Power, which inspired women from across the United States to recognize their place in society.
The Union achieved significant political strength, and actively lobbied for a New York state constitutional amendment to give women the vote, which was achieved in 1917 after Tammany Hall relaxed its opposition. In 1915, Blatch's Women's Political Union merged with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns' Congressional Union,[6] which eventually became the National Woman's Party.
During World War I, Blatch devoted her time to the war effort, heading the Woman's Land Army of America, which provided additional farm labor. She wrote Mobilizing Woman Power in 1918, about women's role in the war effort, urging women to "go to work".[5] In 1920, she published A Woman's Point of View,[8] where she took a pacifist position due to the destruction of the war." - Wikipedia