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Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics de Marjorie J. Spruill

Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics

Autor Marjorie J. Spruill
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 ian 2019

The fascinating true story of the characters in Hulu's "Mrs. America" and a broader portrait of the two women's movements that spurred an enduring rift between liberals and conservatives.

"The many admirers of 'Mrs. America' . . . will find great satisfaction in [Divided We Stand] . . . a clear, compelling and deeply insightful volume." -The Washington Post

One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of the Year

In the early 1970s, an ascendant women's rights movement enjoyed strong support from both political parties and considerable success, but was soon challenged by a conservative women's movement formed in opposition. Tensions between the two would explode in 1977 at the congressionally funded National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas. As Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and other feminists endorsed hot-button issues such as abortion rights, the ERA, and gay rights, Phyllis Schlafly and Lottie Beth Hobbs rallied with conservative women to protest federally funded feminism and launch a pro-family movement.

Divided We Stand reveals how crucial women and women's issues have been in the shaping of today's political culture. After the National Women's Conference, Democrats continued to back women's rights in cooperation with a more diverse feminist movement while the GOP abandoned its previous support for women's rights and defined itself as the party of family values, irrevocably affecting the course of American politics.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632863164
ISBN-10: 1632863162
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 1x16 page B&W plate section
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Spruill is a leading authority on the history of gender politics: Formerly a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University; at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholar; and had a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Notă biografică

Marjorie J. Spruillis Distinguished Professor Emerita of History from the University of South Carolina. She is the author ofNew Women of the New Southand the editor of numerous anthologies includingOne Woman, One Vote.Spruill's research forDivided We Standwas supported by fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She lives in South Carolina.

Recenzii

Convincingly traces today's schisms to events surrounding the National Women's Conference, a four-day gathering in Houston in November 1977. These divergent narratives from 40 years ago offer many lessons to those hoping to maintain the momentum of the Jan. 21 women's marches.
Marjorie Spruill describes a polarized America that will be recognizable to any consumer of today's news.A story crucial to understanding American politics over the past 40 years.The question raised by the battle of 1977--who speaks for women?--still bedevils American politics.
This timely history anatomizes two bitterly opposed women's movements, tracing a connection between 1977 and 2016.
While the shortcomings of the women's movement in protecting their advances is well-documented in this book, it is the rise of conservative women and how they redirected the Republican Party's positions that makes the book so interesting. Feminists and supporters of women's rights will find this difficult to swallow, but this is an important book for them to read.
Fascinating.DIVIDED WE STAND evokes two movements, two equal mobilizations, struggling over the role of women in America.
The NWC [National Women's Conference] featured people and political trends whose significance is all the greater given the election's outcome. The book details how the conference provoked a bitter debate between feminists and conservative women activists.[Spruill's] interviews of key participants both illuminate the narrative and preserve first-hand accounts for future scholars.
Spruill strives to be evenhanded, pointing out the mistakes and excesses of both sides.DIVIDED WE STAND lucidly explains just how we got so divided.
Spruill's project of historical reclamation is an important one . The value of reconstructing those days [of the 1977 National Women's Conference] and pondering their meaning for the light they might shed on ours is unquestionable.
Noted historian Marjorie J. Spruill has written a well-researched, detailed history of the modern-day fight over women's rights and its 'essential role' in bringing the United States to the fractious state we currently endure . . .Divided We Standis essential for understanding the recent past as well as the present.
An outstanding study of the National Women's Conference (NWC). Published to coincide with the conference's fortieth anniversary,Divided We Standis the first book to fully explore this momentous event . . . [Spruill] places readers in strategy sessions and frontline skirmishes, allowing them to feel what it was like to be a part of the buildup to and the aftermath of the NWC.