And Yet They Persisted, Johanna Neuman
And Yet They Persisted, Johanna Neuman
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And Yet They Persisted
How American Women Won the Right to Vote

Author: Johanna Neuman

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/26/2021


Synopsis

In this sweeping history, author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power. Reintegrating the long struggle for the women's suffrage into the metanarrative of US history, Dr. Neuman sheds new light on such questions as:

● Why it took so long to achieve equal voting rights for women

● How victories in state suffrage campaigns pressured Congress to act

● Why African American women had to fight again for their rights in 1965

● How the struggle by eight generations of female activists finally succeeded

And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote is the ideal text for college courses in women's studies and history covering the women's suffrage movement, as well as courses on American History, Political History, Progressive Era reforms, or reform movements in general.

About Johanna Neuman

Johanna Neuman is a writer, historian, and scholar in residence at American University in Washington, D.C. An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, she covered the White House, the State Department, and Congress for the Los Angeles Times and USA Today.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Roxana on August 24, 2023

Apart from being very well written and engaging, it also made something clear to me: that oppressed groups will often fight each other while the oppressor sits on the side, watches and wins. So many people who lobbied in favor of abolishing slavery were against offering women the right to vote; so ma......more

Goodreads review by Behrooz on November 02, 2021

I listened to the unabridged 10-hour audio version of this title (read by Tanya Eby, Tantor Audio, 2021). Hailed as the ideal text for courses in women's studies and American history, this detailed retelling of the women's suffrage movement doesn't focus only on the commonly-covered period from the......more

Goodreads review by Dave on October 24, 2021

Interesting. Tons of backstory. A little textbook-y. Have listened to better suffrage books.......more