From Seneca to Shelby: Intersectionality and Women's Voting Rights

One hundred years ago, the 19^th Amendment was passed, ostensibly giving women the right to vote. Yet today the ability of women -- all women -- to effectively exercise this right is far from guaranteed. In this chapter, I provide a broad overview of woman’s voting rights that emphasizes the intersections of gender and race starting with the women’s suffrage movement of the 19^th and 20^th centuries and moving to the recent attacks on voting rights and the potential intersectional implications they might have. I do this by taking what are often treated as two separate narratives of voting rights, one about gender and the other about race, and identifying the intersectional interventions that have or might be made in order to create a more inclusive and continuous account of women’s voting rights.