Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of British Columbia, discusses the powerful influence literature had on the woman's suffrage movement in the United States. Presented by the League of Women Voters of the Ann Arbor Area to celebrate "Liberty Awakes," an exhibit on local woman suffragists, this fascinating podcast offers an unique look at various ways the written word and other voiceless speech methods were used during and after the movement.  Click HERE to listen

Happily, this podcast also coincides with the publication of Mary Chapman's ground-breaking book, Treacherous Texts: An Anthology of U.S. Suffrage Literature 1846-1946.