Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage East - Japan After the young daughter of

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fiercely dogmatic revolutionary haunted by memories of a woman he left for the cause

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Anna Howard Shaw: The Work of Woman Suffrage East - Japan After the young daughter ofWith this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847 1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. An immigrant from a poor family, Shaw grew up in an economic reality that encouraged the adoption of non traditional gender roles. Challenging traditional gender boundaries throughout her life, she put herself through college, worked as an ordained minister and a