{"product_id":"the-feminist-promise-1792-to-the-present-9780812972023","title":"The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A unique, elegant, learned sweep through more than two centuries of women's efforts to overcome the most fundamental way that human beings have been wrongly divided into the leaders and the led. It's full of surprises from the past and guiding lights for the future.\"--Gloria Steinem\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor more than two centuries, the ranks of feminists have included dreamy idealists and conscientious reformers, erotic rebels and angry housewives, dazzling writers, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eshrewd political strategists, and thwarted workingwomen. Well-known leaders are sketched from new angles by Stansell, with her bracing\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eeye for character: Mary Wollstonecraft, the passionate English writer who in 1792 published the first full-scale argument for the rights of women; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, brilliant and fearless; the imperious, quarrelsome Betty Friedan. But figures from other contexts, too, appear in an unforgettable new light, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in the 1970s led a revolution in the constitutional interpretations of women's rights, and Toni Morrison, whose bittersweet prose gave voice to the modern black female experience. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStansell accounts for the failures of feminism as well as the successes. She notes significant moments in the struggle for gender equality, such as the emergence in the early 1900s of the dashing\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\"New Woman\"; the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote; the post-World War II collapse\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eof suburban neo-Victorianism; and the radical feminism of the 1960s--all of which led to vast changes\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ein American\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eculture and society. \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Promise\u003c\/i\u003e dramatically updates our understanding of feminism, taking the story through the age of Reagan and into the era of international feminist movements that have swept the globe. Stansell provocatively insists that the fight for women's rights in developing countries \"cannot be separated from democracy's survival.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA soaring work unprecedented in scope, historical depth, and literary appeal, \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Promise\u003c\/i\u003e is bound to become an authoritative source on this essential subject for decades to come on. At once a work of scholarship, political observation, and personal reflection, it is a book that speaks to the demands and challenges--individual, national, and international--of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christine Stansell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Random House Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Library (Paperback)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812972023","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43195592999049,"sku":"9780812972023","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_37f4d9d2-ffde-4109-889d-f23b221f005f.jpg?v=1733863744","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-feminist-promise-1792-to-the-present-9780812972023","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}