Free Thinker: The Extraordinary Life of the Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote by Kim

Description: Free Thinker by Kimberly A. Hamlin A story of transgression in the face of religious ideology, a sexist scientific establishment and political resistance to securing womens right to vote FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweths affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing womens rights and decrying the sexual double standard. She published seven books and countless essays, hobnobbed with the most interesting thinkers of her era, and was celebrated for her audacious ideas and keen wit. Opposed to piety, temperance, and conventional thinking, Gardener eventually settled in Washington, D.C., where her tireless work proved, according to her colleague Maud Wood Park, "the most potent factor" in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Free Thinker is the first biography of Helen Hamilton Gardener, who died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of female citizenship. Hamlin exposes the racism that underpinned the womens suffrage movement and the contradictions of Gardeners politics. Her life sheds new light on why it was not until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Nineteenth Amendment became a reality for all women. Celebrated in her own time but lost to history in ours, Gardener was hailed as the "Harriet Beecher Stowe of Fallen Women." Free Thinker is the story of a woman whose struggles, both personal and political, resound in todays fight for gender and sexual equity. Author Biography Kimberly A. Hamlin is an award-winning historian, author, and professor specializing in the history of women, gender, and sex in the United States. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. Review "Free Thinker is as vivid and arresting as its subject. And Helen Hamilton Gardeners insistent argument, that American women were self-respecting, self-directing human units with brains and bodies sacredly their own, still feels as urgent and as radical as it did a century ago." -- Jane Kamensky, Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University"Free Thinker is an incredible biography of far more than a fascinating woman…A must read for anyone looking for a nuanced view of the complicated legacy of the suffrage movement." -- Marcia Chatelain, author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America and South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration"Suffragist Helen Hamilton Gardener is someone we need to know…Kimberly A. Hamlins careful research, unflinching eye, and storytelling gift reveal how Gardeners path to the ballot was paved with ideas that ran from free thought and the science of heredity to white supremacy. Free Thinker makes plain how suffragists like Gardener left a legacy on voting rights that was uneven at best. We live with its vestiges until today." -- Martha S. Jones, author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America Review Quote "Throughout the chronological, passionately researched narrative, Hamlin captures all angles of her fascinating subject. A captivating story of yet another strong, brilliant woman who should be better known." Details ISBN132402187X Author Kimberly A. Hamlin Year 2022 ISBN-10 132402187X ISBN-13 9781324021872 Format Paperback Imprint WW Norton & Co Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Illustrations 15 illustrations Pages 416 NZ Release Date 2022-07-19 US Release Date 2022-07-19 Publication Date 2022-07-19 UK Release Date 2022-07-19 Subtitle The Extraordinary Life of the Fallen Woman Who Won the Vote Publisher WW Norton & Co Alternative 9781324004974 DEWEY 324.623092 Audience General AU Release Date 2022-10-04 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:138219831;

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