And Yet They Persisted: How American Women Won the Right to Vote

Johanna Neuman

Jan 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tanya Eby

About this audiobook

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.

About the author

Johanna Neuman is an author and award-winning journalist. Johanna received a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, served as president of the White House Correspondents' Association, and currently holds the title of Scholar in Residence, History Department, American University.

Tanya Eby has been a voice-over artist for over a decade. She is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. Besides narrating, Tanya spends her time teaching creative writing classes at the collegiate level, blogging, and working on her own novels.