In writing the history of Wisconsin Institutionalism, these women have received little attention (Johnson 2011 and 2015; Kaufman 1993; Lampman 1993; Rutherford 2006 and 2011; Tilman 2008). Yet, the daughters of Commons made important contributions both to the body of work considered Wisconsin Institutionalist...

This paper examines the contributions of Anna Bugge Wicksell and Alva Reimer Myrdal to the economics of the franchise. Bugge Wicksell and Reimer Myrdal were formidable scholars, feminists, and politicians who worked on issues of women’s rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...