| Edition |
First Pegasus books cloth edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (584 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
"Now We Can Begin" -- Flappers & Feminists, 1920-1928 -- The Eleanor Effect, 1928-1945 -- From Rosie to Rosa Parks, 1945-1959 -- Pillboxes & Protests, 1960-1972 -- Battle Lines, 1972-1980 -- Factions & Firsts, 1980-1992 -- Isolation & Intersectionality, 1993-2008 -- Leaning In & Losing, 2009-2016 -- Enraged & Empowered, 2017-2020. |
| Summary |
"The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. 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. They wanted to protect their communities from racial violence and discrimination. Theirs was not only a women's movement. White women wanted to be equal to white men. They sought equal legal rights, political power, safeguards for working women and immigrants, and an end to confining social structures. There were also many white women who opposed any advance for any women. In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately - as white or Black topic s- or covered narrowly, through only certain individuals, decades, or incidents. Formidable provides a sweeping, century-long perspective, and an expansive cast of change agents. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women's movement mirrors America. After that landmark victory in 1920, suffragists had a sense of optimism, declaring, "Now we can begin!" By 2020, a new generation knew how hard the fight for incremental change was; they would have to begin again. Both engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue their foremothers'fights to achieve equality for all." -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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African American women -- History -- 20th century.
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African American women -- History -- 21st century.
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Equality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Equality -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
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African American women. |
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Equality. |
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Women's rights. |
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United States. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
American women and the fight for equality, 1920-2020 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Griffith, Elisabeth. Formidable. First Pegasus books cloth edition. New York : Pegasus Books, 2022 9781639361892 (OCoLC)1336878059 |
| ISBN |
9781639361908 (electronic bk.) |
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1639361901 (electronic bk.) |
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9781639361892 (hardcover) |
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