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The feminist promise : 1792 to the present
Title:
The feminist promise : 1792 to the present
Author:
Stansell, Christine.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Modern Library, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
xix, 503 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Wild wishes -- Brothers and sisters: women's rights and the abolition of slavery -- New moral worlds -- Loyalty's limits: the Civil War, emancipation, and women's bids for power -- The politics of the mothers -- Modern times: political revival and winning the vote -- Democratic homemaking and its discontents: feminism in the lost years -- The revolt of the daughters -- Politics as usual and unusual politics -- Politics and the female body -- Global feminism: the age of Reagan and beyond.
ISBN:
9780679643142
Format :
Book