Rebecca Traister Quote
Suffragists had often staged political pageants in which they wore sashes emblazoned Votes for Women. But 1921, the year following the ratification of the 19th Amendment, brought a perversion of this display: the debut of the Miss America pageant, in which unmarried women showed off their decidedly apolitical attributes in competition against, as opposed to collaboration with, each other.57 The
Rebecca Traister
Suffragists had often staged political pageants in which they wore sashes emblazoned Votes for Women. But 1921, the year following the ratification of the 19th Amendment, brought a perversion of this display: the debut of the Miss America pageant, in which unmarried women showed off their decidedly apolitical attributes in competition against, as opposed to collaboration with, each other.57 The