The feminist promise : 1792 to the present /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stansell, Christine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Modern Library, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Table of 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.