Public Faces, Secret Lives by Wendy L. Rouse

 Suffragette history has always been full of queer women in all aspects and stages of its evolution. However, these people were not always treated well or respected even among the very movement that they were working with. 

The author organized this book into several different sections and talked about how being a queer person affected so many parts of the activism and life that these people were trying to lead. 

The different aspects of life that the author discussed  in regards to being queer included how they presented themselves to the public, how they decided to live, how they participated in the suffragette movement and how they mourned and also prepared for their death. 

This book is really interesting and shows just how important queer people were to the suffragette movement in every part of its evolution even when they were not appreciated or recognized by the movement at large. 

I received this book free from NetGalley and NYU Press to review and this is my honest review. 

Five out of five stars