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"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 Chenoweth 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…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2020Norton & Company Limited, W. W. · 400 pages · 9781324004974
- Other · English · 2020Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 400 pages · 9781324004981
United states, politics and governmentSuffragistsWomen intellectualsWomen's rightsSex customsWomen, united states, biographyWomen, historyWomen's studies