ISBN:
9781639363971
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 507 Seiten, 24 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
,
Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
First Pegasus books paperback edition
DDC:
305.4209
Keywords:
Geschichte 1920-2020
;
Frauenbewegung
;
USA
;
Women's rights / United States / History / 20th century
;
Women's rights / United States / History / 21st century
;
African American women / History / 20th century
;
African American women / History / 21st century
;
Equality / United States / History / 20th century
;
Equality / United States / History / 21st century
;
Women's rights
;
African American women
;
Equality
;
History
;
United States
;
Twentieth century
;
Twenty-first century
;
History
;
USA
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Geschichte 1920-2020
Abstract:
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. White women wanted to be equal to white men. In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Author's note: Story lines -- "Now we can begin" -- Flapper & feminists, 1920-1928 -- The Eleanor effect, 1928-1945 -- From Rosie to Rosa Parks, 1945-1959 -- Pillboxes & protests, 1960-1972 -- Battle lines, 1972-1980 -- Faction & firsts, 1980-1992 -- Isolation & intersectionality, 1993-2008 -- Leaning in & losing, 2009-2016 -- Enraged & empowered, 2017-2020 -- Epilogue: Not enough
