And Yet They Persisted

How American Women Won the Right to Vote

By: Johanna Neuman

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

In this sweeping history, author Johanna Neuman demonstrates that American women defeated the male patriarchy only after they convinced men that it was in their interests to share political power. Reintegrating the long struggle for the women's suffrage into the metanarrative of US history, Dr. Neuman sheds new light on such questions as:

• Why it took so long to achieve equal voting rights for women
• How victories in state suffrage campaigns pressured Congress to act
• Why African American women had to fight again for their rights in 1965
• How the struggle by eight generations of female activists finally succeeded

And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote is the ideal text for college courses in women's studies and history covering the women's suffrage movement, as well as courses on American history, political history, Progressive Era reforms, or reform movements in general.

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Good narrative, but

A great deal of time near the end of the book is dedicated to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, e.g. Emmitt Till and Freedom Summer. There is section about Andrew Jackson’s treatment of Native Americans; and other groups. There’s barely any mention of women’s struggle for suffrage in those chapters. Not sure why these chapters are even in the book, iIt is very frustrating because that’s not what I got this book for.