Name: Bringing Down the Colonel: A sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman who Took on Washington (en Inglés)
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Author: Patricia Miller
ISBN: 9780374252663

portada Bringing Down the Colonel: A sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman who Took on Washington (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Farrar Straus & Giroux

Autor

Patricia Miller

Categoría

Política y Ciencias Sociales

Año

2018

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

384

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780374252663

Bringing Down the Colonel: A sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman who Took on Washington (en Inglés)

Patricia Miller (Autor) · Farrar Straus & Giroux · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Bringing Down the Colonel: A sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman who Took on Washington (en Inglés)"

Ill take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century womens rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her ruined, Pollard brought the manand the hypocrisy of Americas control of womens sexualityto trial. And, surprisingly, she won.Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollards handand then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with womens sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, weve witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.