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Publisher's summary
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the 17th to the 21st century
“Lillian Faderman’s is a book many of us have been waiting for, the first comprehensive history of American women to capture the rich discoveries that have been made over the last half century, juxtaposing the abstraction of ‘woman’ with the range, resilience, and resistance of real women.” (Ellen Carol DuBois, author of Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote)
What does it mean to be a “woman” in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement.
This wide-ranging 400-year history chronicles conflicts, retreats, defeats, and hard-won victories in both the private and the public sectors and shines a light on the often-overlooked battles of enslaved women and women leaders in tribal nations. Noting that every attempt to cement a particular definition of “woman” has been met with resistance, Faderman also shows that successful challenges to the status quo are often short-lived. As she underlines, the idea of womanhood in America continues to be contested.
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America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not all there
- By Dirk Williams on 04-02-12
By: Gail Collins
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A Fierce Discontent
- The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920
- By: Michael McGerr
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
The Progressive Era witnessed the nation's most convulsive upheaval, a time of radicalism far beyond the Revolution or anything since. In response to the birth of modern America, one small group of middle-class Americans seized control of the nation and attempted to remake society from bottom to top. They accomplished an astonishing range of triumphs, yet the progressive movement collapsed as the war came to an end amid race riots, strikes, high inflation, and a frenzied Red scare.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A well balanced take
- By Ryan Mooney on 04-17-21
By: Michael McGerr
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Votes for Women!
- American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
- By: Winifred Conkling
- Narrated by: Christina Moore
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 29
On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap toward equal rights. In this expansive yet personal volume, author Winifred Conkling covers not only the suffragists' achievements and politics but also the private journeys that fueled their passion and led them to become women's champions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you, ladies!
- By Stephanie Epps on 04-26-20
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Stamped from the Beginning
- The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
- By: Ibram X. Kendi
- Narrated by: Christopher Dontrell Piper
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,063
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,550
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3,518
Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous book, poor reader
- By EBMason on 11-15-17
By: Ibram X. Kendi
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A Renegade History of the United States
- By: Thaddeus Russell
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 706
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 571
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American history was driven by clashes between those interested in preserving social order and those more interested in pursuing their own desires---the "respectable" versus the "degenerate", the moral versus the immoral. The more that "bad" people existed, resisted, and won, the greater was our common good. In A Renegade History of the United States, Russell introduces us to the origins of our nation's identity as we have never known them before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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One of those books...that cause brain freeze!
- By Rory on 07-19-13
By: Thaddeus Russell
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The Firebrand and the First Lady
- Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
- By: Patricia Bell-Scott
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 123
An important, groundbreaking book - two decades in work - that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing 28-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave who, against all odds, as a lesbian Black woman, became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt (first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and human rights internationalist) that critically shaped Eleanor Roosevelt's, and therefore FDR's, view of race and racism in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- By Jean on 02-20-16
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A Strange Stirring
- 'The Feminine Mystique' and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s
- By: Stephanie Coontz
- Narrated by: Diane Cardea
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Based on exhaustive research and interviews, and challenging both conservative and liberal myths about Friedan, A Strange Stirring brilliantly illuminates how a generation of women came to realize that their dissatisfaction with domestic life didn’t reflect their personal weakness but rather a social and political injustice.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good histroy and well written
- By Hannah Lasher on 06-18-16
By: Stephanie Coontz
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The Gay Revolution
- The Story of the Struggle
- By: Lillian Faderman
- Narrated by: Donna Postel
- Length: 29 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 183
The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding book.
- By David Farley on 10-21-15
By: Lillian Faderman
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Bringing Down the Colonel
- A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
- By: Patricia Miller
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 31
In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely 19th-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined”, Pollard brought the man - and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality - to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stay with it. It is amazing.
- By Living Downeast on 09-29-19
By: Patricia Miller
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Good and Mad
- How Women's Anger Is Reshaping America
- By: Rebecca Traister
- Narrated by: Rebecca Traister
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,327
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,182
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,172
In the year 2018, it seems as if women’s anger has suddenly erupted into the public conversation. But long before this, women’s anger was not only politically catalytic - but politically problematic. With eloquence and fervor, Rebecca tracks the history of female anger as political fuel - from suffragettes chaining themselves to the White House to office workers vacating their buildings after Clarence Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. She deconstructs society’s (and the media’s) condemnation of female emotion (notably, rage) and the impact of resulting repercussions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The perfect book for October 2018.
- By Kate Willette on 10-03-18
By: Rebecca Traister
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Trailblazer
- A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
- By: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Struggled to finish
- By SL41639 on 04-06-20
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Theodore Roosevelt
- A Strenuous Life
- By: Kathleen Dalton
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 27 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 154
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Esteemed Harvard University historian and Associate Fellow Kathleen Dalton has been studying Theodore Roosevelt since 1975. This authoritative work, incorporating the latest scholarship, paints a compelling portrait of the president in all his robust glory.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Biography
- By viennacoup on 10-18-05
By: Kathleen Dalton
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- By: David W. Blight
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,482
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,217
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,204
As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The sound of rollerskating in sand
- By Rico X Ludovici on 02-06-19
By: David W. Blight
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The Second Coming of the KKK
- The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
- By: Linda Gordon
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 109
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 106
By legitimizing bigotry and redefining so-called American values, a revived Klan in the 1920s left a toxic legacy that demands reexamination today. Boasting four to six million members, the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s dramatically challenged our preconceptions of hooded Klansmen, who through violence and lynching had established a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Necessary History
- By S. Summers on 01-29-18
By: Linda Gordon
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Why They Marched
- Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
- By: Susan Ware
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 98
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 81
For far too long, the history of how American women won the right to vote has been told as the tale of a few iconic leaders, all white and native-born. But Susan Ware uncovered a much broader and more diverse story waiting to be told. Why They Marched is a tribute to the many women who worked tirelessly in communities across the nation, out of the spotlight, protesting, petitioning, and insisting on their right to full citizenship.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a needed history lesson
- By Jerseycookie on 05-14-22
By: Susan Ware
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Ida M. Tarbell
- The Woman Who Challenged Big Business - and Won!
- By: Emily Arnold McCully
- Narrated by: Emily Arnold McCully
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4 out of 5 stars 41
Born in 1857 and raised in oil country, Ida M. Tarbell was one of the first investigative journalists and probably the most influential in her time. Her series of articles on the Standard Oil Trust, a complicated business empire run by John D. Rockefeller, revealed to readers the underhanded, even illegal practices that had led to Rockefeller's success.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent!
- By AKA1 on 03-16-19
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- Mehdi El Amine
- 11-27-22
The full picture
10/10 would recommend girls and women read at some point in life. We deserve to know and understand the most accurate picture of our past as women.
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- 09-12-22
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It is a great story of the gender, power, culture, and cultural production everyone should be aware of
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- carolaird
- 10-04-22
Excellence
Lillian Faderman takes us back in time through the last 400 years of US history. I found myself fascinated with stories new to me and delighted to meet again in historical context, figures such as botanist Suzanna Wright and left-wing radical Bernardine Dohrn. Ms. Faderman subtly warns us not to become complacent because the struggle continues. It’s a fabulous book.
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