"... In this important book leading women's historians discuss suffrage movement sin an international context and over a century-long history; they address their leadership and their strategies, their language and their ideas, their consequences and their implications. Influences and connections are seen to be at least as important as difference and diversity. Mrs Mary Leavitt travelled the world spreading the Women's Christian Temperance Union and its suffrage message and linking women from the United States to Japan and the Antipodes ..." -- Back cover.