Living Power

"Lauren Kroiz provides a new art history of the suffrage era in the United States that accounts for the paradoxes and contradictions of the movement and the female artists who responded to it. Showing how their artworks intersected with modernist aesthetic debates and social currents surrounding gender and racial equality, Kroiz expands and disrupts the history of feminist art."—Erika Doss, author of Spiritual Moderns: Twentieth-Century American Artists and Religion

"Kroiz's indispensable monograph on the aesthetics of women's suffrage is lamentably timely during our current period of antifeminist backlash and retrenchment. Her nuanced account grapples with the revanchist politics of respectability and the exclusionary logic of white supremacy that often informed the movement but at the same time uncovers surprisingly radical forms of image making cloaked in traditional academic conventions."—John Ott, author of Mixed Media: The Visual Cultures of Racial Integration