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Allison Lange begins Picturing Political Power by describing Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's 2016 visual campaigns, arguing that such contemporary visual representations support her assertion that the suffragists' "visual campaign illuminates the roots of today's gendered political imagery and its constrains" (217). Lange argues that Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Mary Church Terrell, and Alice Paul all "decided what the public would see. They worked to leave out the parts that did not fit their vision" (211). She further opines that we can understand the world we live in and the difficulties that female politicians face today by understanding these earlier struggles and strategies.Lange walks readers through various visual advancements, from mezzotints, lithographs and ambrotypes to cartes de visite and half-tone printing, but she does not get bogged down in technical detail. Instead, she wisely chooses to show the reader how these visual innovations allowed suffragists to control their image and craft visual campaigns.Lange argues that suffragists "needed to change minds about the bounds of female citizenship," and that visual campaigns helped "to transform notions of political womanhood" (2).

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As a result of the woman suffrage movement, citizenship and voting rights, though considered separate issues by the courts, became more intertwined in the mind of the average American. This interconnectedness was also a product of the concurrent movement to disfranchise immigrant declarant voters—immigrants who had filed their intention to become citizens but had not completed the naturalization process. This essay shows how suffragists pursued immigrant declarant disfranchisement as part of the woman suffrage movement, arguing that the same competitive political conditions that encouraged politicians to enfranchise primarily white, citizen women led them to disfranchise immigrant declarants. It analyzes suffragists’ arguments at both the state and national levels that voting was a right of citizens who had met their wartime obligations to the nation, and maintains that woman suffrage and the votes of white women who supported the measures disfranchising immigrant declarants and limiting immigrant rights should be included in historians’ understanding of the immigration restrictionist and nativist movements.

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