Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for the Women’s Right to Vote

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Although they were dismissed by critics as bored socialites “trying on suffrage as they might the latest couture designs from Paris,” numerous women of New York’s most affluent families such as the Astors, Whitneys and Rockefellers, served a vital role in the suffrage movement in the early twentieth century.

In her new book. Gilded Suffragists, author Johanna Neuman explains how these socialites used their wealth and power to excite mainstream interest and makes a case for their rightful place in the story of women’s suffrage.