Mobilizing Woman-Power

This is the suffragist's irrefutable case: during the Great War, women proved their citizenship on the factory floor, in the fields, and at the front lines as nurses. Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, marshals every statistic and every testimony to make one unanswerable argument - that the woman who builds shells can certainly build a nation, and that those who contribute to victory deserve a voice in determining what peace will look like. Theodore Roosevelt's foreword underscores the urgency: this is not charity, this is national necessity. Blatch dedicates her work to the women of Britain and France, the 'second line of defense,' while challenging America to recognize that victory belongs not just to those who fight but to those who sustain. The book captures a pivotal historical moment when half the population leveraged total war to demand full citizenship, arguing that the post-war world must include women not as a favor, but as an imperative. It remains a vital primary document of the suffrage movement, a window into how women strategically used wartime necessity to dismantle the argument against their political equality.