{"product_id":"formidable-american-women-and-the-fight-for-equality-1920-2020-paperback","title":"Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElisabeth Griffith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.\"--Hillary Rodham Clinton\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women are still grappling with how to use the vote and their political power to expand civil rights, confront racial violence, improve maternal health, advance educational and employment opportunities, and secure reproductive rights. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Formidable chronicles the efforts of white and Black women to advance sometimes competing causes. Black women wanted the rights enjoyed by whites. They wanted to protect their communities from racial violence and discrimination. Theirs was not only a women's movement. White women wanted to be equal to white men. They sought equal legal rights, political power, safeguards for working women and immigrants, and an end to confining social structures. There were also many white women who opposed any advance for any women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this riveting narrative, Dr. Elisabeth Griffith integrates the fight by white and Black women to achieve equality. Previously their parallel struggles for social justice have been presented separately--as white or Black topics--or covered narrowly, through only certain individuals, decades, or incidents. Formidable provides a sweeping, century-long perspective, and an expansive cast of change agents. From feminists and civil rights activists to politicians and social justice advocates, from working class women to mothers and homemakers, from radicals and conservatives to those who were offended by feminism, threatened by social change, or convinced of white supremacy, the diversity of the women's movement mirrors America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After that landmark victory in 1920, suffragists had a sense of optimism, declaring, \"Now we can begin!\" By 2020, a new generation knew how hard the fight for incremental change was; they would have to begin again. Both engaging and outraging, Formidable will propel readers to continue their foremothers' fights to achieve equality for all.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElisabeth Griffith \u003c\/b\u003eearned her PhD from The American University and an undergraduate degree from Wellesley College. She has been a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Institute of Politics and a Klingenstein Fellow at Columbia Teachers College. Dr. Griffith has spent her career working for women's rights as an activist and an academic, teaching women's history at the secondary and college level and\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ehas written for\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and professional journals. She is currently teaching courses in women's history at the Smithsonian Associates and Politics \u0026amp; Prose. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn Her Own Right: The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was the inspiration for Ken Burns' PBS documentary, \u003ci\u003eNot For Ourselves Alone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.1 x 7.8 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772348301600,"sku":"9781639363971","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/01af88a9eb11ffdc1564eb004565c8a8.webp?v=1780403711","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/formidable-american-women-and-the-fight-for-equality-1920-2020-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}