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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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Johanna Neuman is an author, award-winning journalist, and one of the nation's preeminent historians of women's suffrage in the United States. 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. She is author of the acclaimed book Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women's Right to Vote. Tanya Eby is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. AudioFile magazine says, Listening to Tanya Eby is like listening to a full-cast recording. Tanya has a BA in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing. Besides narrating, Tanya blogs and works on her own novels. She has published four novels and is at work on her fifth.

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