Kirsten Delegard: 2 books
U.S. Women's History
Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman...
Battling Miss Bolsheviki
The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical...