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Free Thinker - Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener (Hardcover)
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Free Thinker - Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener (Hardcover)
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When Ohio newspapers published the story of Alice Chenoweth’s
affair with a married man, she changed her name to Helen Hamilton
Gardener, moved to New York, and devoted her life to championing
women’s 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 women’s suffrage movement
and the contradictions of Gardener’s 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 today’s fight for gender and sexual equity.
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Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2020 |
Authors: |
Kimberly A. Hamlin
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Dimensions: |
239 x 160 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-00497-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-324-00497-5 |
Barcode: |
9781324004974 |
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