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Title:	Author Event with Jamie Capuzza
Date:	5/26/2023 (Friday)
Address:	Prologue Bookshop 841 North High Street
Location:	Columbus, OH
Hours:	6:30pm
Cost/Cover:	Free
Web Page:	https://www.prologuebookshop.com/
Contact Info:	614-745-1395

Details:

Join Dr. Jamie Capuzza at Prologue Bookshop on May 26th at 6:30 p.m.

Prologue Bookshop is proud to present Jamie Capuzza for an in-store author event.

This event will take place on May26th at 6:30 p.m.

Jamie C. Capuzza is a professor in the Department of Literature and Communication Arts and directs the Gender and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Mount Union in Ohio. She has been published in several academic journals and books, and her coedited volume, Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories, has won three national awards.

Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a long history of such debates and suffrage campaigns. The struggle for women’s voting rights, in particular, required persistence in the face of defeat, and unbeknownst to most people, Ohio—the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment—played a key role in the national women’s suffrage movement.

Covering 70 years of the movement, from 1850 through 1920, Jamie Capuzza demonstrates that the tendency to overlook the contributions of Ohio suffragists dates back to the earliest years of the movement. Ohioans were the first to petition a government for women’s enfranchisement, and Ohioans helped build the infrastructure for the movement by forming the nation’s first state women’s rights organization and by hosting two of the earliest national women’s rights conventions.

Buy a copy of her book here.