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At that conference, Bella Abzug, Steinem, and other feminists adopted a National Plan of Action, endorsing the hot-button issues of abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights--the latter a new issue in national politics. Across town, Phyllis Schlafly, Lottie Beth Hobbs, and the conservative women’s movement held a massive rally to protest federally funded feminism and launch a Pro-Family movement.    Although much has been written about the role that social issues have played in politics, little attention has been given to the historical impact of women activists on both sides. DIVIDED WE STAND reveals how the battle between feminists and their conservative challengers divided the nation as Democrats continued to support women’s rights and Republicans cast themselves as the party of family values.    The women’s rights movement and the conservative women’s movement have irrevocably affected the course of modern American history. 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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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570058764561,"sku":"GOR011129621","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49586170757393,"sku":"GOR012113713","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49940101202193,"sku":"CIN1632863162G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51822286700817,"sku":"CIN1632863162VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1632863162.jpg?v=1750720563"},{"product_id":"one-woman-one-vote-book-marjorie-j-spruill-9780939165780","title":"One Woman, One Vote","description":"Includes definitive writings by leading scholars that cover the full scope of the woman suffrage movement in the U.S., up to and including the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. This revised and expanded edition offers new material on the international influences for suffrage, race and racism, and regional issues that affected the suffrage movement and the struggles many women faced trying to vote -- even after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne Woman, One Vote\u003c\/b\u003e was first published by NewSage Press in 1975 and is the companion book to the PBS American Experience documentary by the same name. This book continues to be the most comprehensive collection of writings -- contemporary and historical -- on the woman suffrage movement in America. The PBS documentary, produced by the Educational Film Center, has also been updated with an intro by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 23 essays in the \u003cb\u003eSecond Edition\u003c\/b\u003e focus on aspects of the suffrage movement in greater depth with an extensive opening chapter on the overall suffrage movement, \"How Woman Won.\" Many of these prominent contemporary scholars challenge widely accepted traditional theories and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the fight for the Nineteenth Amendment. Together, they tell the fascinating story of woman's suffrage from the failure of the Constitution to enfranchise women to the political engagement of women after 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors of the essays are scholars in the fields of History, American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology, and they help readers \"rediscover\" the suffrage movement through their engaging writing, offering intriguing and often contradictory interpretations of historical accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe editor, Marjorie J. Spruill, Ph.D., is a leading authority in women's and Southern history, and has authored numerous books and essays related to woman suffrage and women's fight for equality. She speaks internationally on these topics and is well respected among historians. Her most recent book, \u003cb\u003eDivided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics\u003c\/b\u003e has been praised in numerous reviews, including \"The New York Times,\" \"The New Yorker,\" \"The Nation,\" and more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew material includes an insightful essay by Spruill on racism in the movement, \"The Inhospitable South and the Struggle for Woman Suffrage.\" She describes the long and often frustrating effort beginning in the 1890s by northern and southern suffragists to bring the Southern states into the movement--an effort thwarted by widespread ideas about white supremacy and states' rights among white Southerners who viewed the movement as an unwelcome offshoot of the antislavery movement.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaders of \u003cb\u003eOne Woman, One Vote\u003c\/b\u003e learn how the suffrage movement--from its beginning in 1848 to its conclusion in 1920, and beyond--changed over time in response to changes in American society and politics. In the Second Edition, two new chapters expand on international suffrage efforts as they relate to the U.S.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReaders also learn of the growing diversity of the suffrage constituency in terms of region, religion, race, class, ethnicity, and even attitude, and that the suffrage story included both a record of harmony and cooperation but also discrimination and betrayal. 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