I kept exclaiming, "I have lived this!" Suffragettes and anti-suffragettes all collided in Nashville in a bitter struggle to determine whether or not women would gain the federal right to vote. My grandmother liked to remind me that she never missed a trip to the ballot box in her life from the time she was an eligible voter. Tennessee was the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. Woman's Hour The Cumberlege Review and reaction from the women who campaigned to be heard. BBC Health Correspondent Anna Collinson talks about the background to the cases and the review, and Bonita Barrett discusses her experience of seeking help – and being ignored – when she went to her doctor in pain after being given a mesh implant without her consent. Elaine Weiss Captures Complexity of Seminal Moment in U.S. History. Weiss takes an episodic approach to her subject, using the July 1920 events as a framing device to explore the history and personalities involved in the "Battle of Tennessee": Carrie Chapman Catt, the unofficial leader of the suffragettes, who twists politician's arms, courts the press and calls in favors while her more radical allies Alice Paul and Anne Dallas Dudley set the rhetorical tone; Josephine Anderson Pearson, the rose-sporting opponent of suffrage who warned that women votes would lead to Bolshevism, anarchy and racial equality; national politicians Woodrow Wilson, James Cox and Warren G. Harding, who equivocated over suffrage (only Cox, Harding's opponent in 1920, comes off remotely well); and Tennesseans like Governor Albert Roberts and Harry Burn, whose last-minute change of heart played a key role in turning the tide. Publication of The Cumberlege Review of three health scandals affecting women including vaginal mesh implants, an oral pregnancy test and an anti-epileptic drug. I'm angry that women weren't allowed to open a credit card without a male cosigner until the 1970s. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss is a stunning, multilayered narrative about the key figures (women and men) at the center of the drama during those fraught weeks in Nashville. [After WWI women had as a group learned all they needed to to run two large camps of organizations: Suffragists and Antis. Plus, I listened to this and the narrator Tania Gilbert was brilliant as well. Being a history enthusiast and coming from a maternal line of political junkies, the dates 1848 and 1920 were entrenched in my brain from an early age. My grandmother liked to remind me that she never missed a trip to the ballot box in her life from the time she was an eligible voter. Every state but two has voted on the 19th Amendment. Thank you to NetGalley and Viking for an ARC of this book in exchange for a honest review. I'm angry that women still earn 20% less than men for the same work with the same credentials. Cumberlege Review Reaction; Leaving School Rituals; Motherless daughters, The Cumberlege Review: "I was just put on the dump", Subscribe to the Late Night Woman's Hour podcast. It’s an American story and therefore one about I'm angry that I'm a Tennessean and history minor in undergrad, yet I didn't know how integral TN was in women's suffrage until last year. The story got lost in the details of who had what for lunch. It’s an American story and therefore one about race and power, about the legacy of the Civil War, and about wounds yet unhealed or forgotten in the south; it’s a story about a suffrage movement split over tactics and strategy, with one faction playing within accepted boundaries, and another more radical faction tired of waiting for men to do the right thing.