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010      2019044543 
020    9781324004974|q(hardcover) 
020    1324004975|q(hardcover) 
020    |z9781324004981|q(epub) 
035    (OCoLC)1128890376 
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100 1  Hamlin, Kimberly A.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Free thinker :|bHelen Hamilton Gardener's audacious 
       pursuit of equality and the vote /|cKimberly A. Hamlin. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    xiv, 386 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  A Chenoweth of Virginia -- The best and cheapest teachers 
       -- A very bad Beecher case -- Purgatory and rebirth -- 
       Ingersoll in soprano -- The cultured poor -- Sex in brain 
       -- The fictions of fiction -- The Harriet Beecher Stowe of
       fallen women -- Wee wifee -- Around the world with the sun
       -- Mrs. Day comes to Washington -- Old fogies -- NAWSA's 
       "diplomatic corps" -- Twenty-two favors -- Our heroic 
       dead. 
520    "How one "fallen woman" battled religious ideology, 
       pseudoscience, and political resistance to women's right 
       to vote. Exposed in Ohio newspapers for an affair with a 
       married man, Alice Chenowyth refused to cower in shame. 
       Instead she changed her name to Helen Hamilton Gardener, 
       moved to New York, pretended to be married to her lover, 
       and became a wildly popular lecturer and author, brazenly 
       opposed to sexist piety and propriety. The "Harriet 
       Beecher Stowe of Fallen Women," she supported raising the 
       age of sexual consent for girls (from twelve or younger), 
       decried double standards of sexual morality, and debunked 
       scientists' claims that women's brains were inferior. With
       liberal doses of feminine charm, Gardner networked 
       tirelessly to persuade Woodrow Wilson and other male 
       politicians to support the Nineteenth Amendment. Her 
       effort, according to suffrage leader Carrie Pitt, was "the
       most potent factor" in its passage. As more women enter 
       politics than ever before, Kimberly A. Hamlin recovers the
       wildly entertaining and illuminating life of a brilliant, 
       effective woman-all but forgotten-who paved the way"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Gardener, Helen H.|q(Helen Hamilton),|d1853-1925. 
600 17 Gardener, Helen H.|q(Helen Hamilton),|d1853-1925.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst00158261 
648  7 1800-1899|2fast 
650  0 Suffragists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Women intellectuals|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Women's rights|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  0 Sex customs|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century. 
650  7 Sex customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114306 
650  7 Suffragists.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01137197 
650  7 Women intellectuals.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178059 
650  7 Women's rights.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01178818 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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