Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Doris Stevens was a major figure in twentieth-century American feminism, serving alongside Alice Paul in the final stages of the women’s suffrage movement and then heading the Inter-American Commission of Women from 1928 to 1938. In 1920, she published Jailed for Freedom, her story of the National Woman’s Party’s role in securing the vote for women. In addition to her political activism, Stevens was a strong proponent of women’s sexual emancipation and conducted her personal life accordingly, although by the end of her life she had become far more conservative. Despite her stellar career, Doris Stevens was not included in Notable American Women, the premier biographical dictionary on women published in 1971, 1980, and 2004. Her exclusion offers a chance to reflect on the politics sometimes involved in who gets chosen for biographical dictionaries, how historical reputations change over time, as well as how foregrounding gender encourages more inclusive reference works.</jats:p>