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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Working on a book about single women in the twenty-first-century, Traister made a startling discovery: historically, when women have had options beyond early heterosexual marriage, their resulting independence has provoked massive social change. Unmarried women were crucial to the abolition, suffrage, temperance, and labor movements; they created settlement houses and secondary education for women. Today, only 20% of Americans are wed by age 29, compared...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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In this trenchant analysis, Traister explores the "nexus of women's anger and American politics," in which "noncompliant, insistent, furious women have shaped our history and our present." This emotion, she writes, "has often ignited movements for social change and progress." Yet it often goes unacknowledged in a culture in which women in politics are "not lauded for their fury." At the core of this analysis is the idea female political activism by...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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It was all as unpredictable as it was riveting: Hillary Clinton's improbable rise, her fall and her insistence on pushing forward straight through to her remarkable phoenix flight from the race; Sarah Palin's attempt not only to fill the void left by Clinton, but to alter the very definition of feminism and claim some version of it for conservatives; liberal rapture over Barack Obama and the historic election of our first African-American president;...
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