{"product_id":"a-voice-of-our-own-isbn-9780470630877","title":"A Voice of Our Own","description":"Prominent activists, academics, politicians, journalists, mothers, and daughters celebrate the indomitable spirit of the American woman and reflect on what democracy means to women's lives.  Foreword.  \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Vote of Our Own.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy Vote, My Self (\u003ci\u003eMary Chapin Carpenter\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImpact (\u003ci\u003eGwen Ifill\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinding America (\u003ci\u003eRebecca Walker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur Struggle for Full Citizenship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen Who Shaped the Constitution (\u003ci\u003eRosalynn Carter\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLessons from the Women's Suffrage Movement (\u003ci\u003eLucinda Desha Robb\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Politics of Sisterhood (\u003ci\u003eElisabeth Griffith\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Women's Movement Across Generations (\u003ci\u003eSarah McClAndon\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmerican Democracy: A Puerto Rican Perspective (\u003ci\u003eSara E. MelAndez\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo More Sounds of Silence (\u003ci\u003eMartina Navratilova\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBreaking the Barriers of Discrimination.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Gift of the Spirit (\u003ci\u003eMary Adelia Rosamond McLeod\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurning the World Rightside Up (\u003ci\u003eBeverly J. Harvard\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOr You Can Get to Work (\u003ci\u003eAda E. Deer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGAnder, Race, and Democracy (\u003ci\u003eDiane C. Yu\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFamily, Work, and Community.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWomen, Work, and Family (\u003ci\u003eJudy Woodruff\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo What is Right (\u003ci\u003eEsther Peterson\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy Life with the League of Women Voters (\u003ci\u003eAnne Firor Scott\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKeepers of the Culture (\u003ci\u003eCorinne C. \"Lindy\" Boggs\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy Democracy (\u003ci\u003eBarbara Davis Blum\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges and Change in One Woman's Life (\u003ci\u003eRosalynn Carter\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur Collective Challenges.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEqual Opportunity for Recovery (\u003ci\u003eBetty Ford\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHarvard Medicine in the Woman's Era (\u003ci\u003eBernadine P. Healy\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOur Collective Challenges (\u003ci\u003eDonna Shalala\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhose Nation is This? (\u003ci\u003eAntonia Hernandez\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the Next Generation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Call to Action (\u003ci\u003eHillary Rodham Clinton\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEntering the Twenty-First Century--On Our Own Terms (\u003ci\u003eWilma P. Mankiller\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSmall Steps, Giant Leaps (\u003ci\u003eCondoleezza Rice\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMy Daughter's Generation (\u003ci\u003eMaria Luisa Mercado\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImagining the Real Future (\u003ci\u003eNancy Y. Bekavac\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eNANCY M. NEUMAN\u003c\/b\u003e is former president of the League of Women Voters and author of \u003ci\u003eThe League of Women Voters in Perspective 1920-1995\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). A lecturer and writer on women in politics and public policy, she has been a distinguished visiting professor at Washington and Jefferson College, Bucknell University, and Pomona College.  Conceived by the League of Women Voters, \u003ci\u003eA Voice of Our Own\u003c\/i\u003e honors the 75th anniversary of the 19th amAndment to the Constitution of the United States--the amAndment that guaranteed women the right to vote.Written by prominent American women-activists, academics, politicians, journalists, mothers, and daughters--\u003ci\u003eA Voice of Our Own\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of twenty-nine original essays that celebrate the indomitable spirit of the American woman. 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