Historian of Monroe County, New York, Vacca examines the public debates of the suffrage campaign, places them in the context of wider discussions about citizenship, and explores the influence they had on prevailing notions of citizenship. She finds that the shift in the suffrage argument from rights to ascriptive notions of citizenship, which had happened by 1880, had a profound effect on that debate and on wider debates over the character of American citizenship. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)