Podcast
American History Tellers
This book, authored by guest Dr. Allison Lange, explored how visual imagery shaped the battle for women's suffrage and how images create ideas that influence perceptions of political power. It focused on the strategies suffragists used through images like portraits and cartoons to argue for their cause.
In your book, Picturing Political Power, you say images can explain ideas in ways that words cannot.
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This book, authored by guest Dr. Allison Lange, explored how visual imagery shaped the battle for women's suffrage and how images create ideas that influence perceptions of political power. It focused on the strategies suffragists used through images like portraits and cartoons to argue for their cause.
In your book, Picturing Political Power, you say images can explain ideas in ways that words cannot.
She's the author of the book Picturing Political Power, Images in the Woman's Suffrage Movement.
One of the things that this book is trying to correct is the idea that these photographs and cartoons and things are not just kind of representations of the past. They were actually making an argument in their own time.