Sexism and U.S. History

by Elizabeth Hall Magill

Sexism and U.S. History fills in some important blanks for readers who want to know how American women got where we are today. This is women’s history as it is rarely taught, for it covers the resistance to sexism that has always been a part of our national story. The U.S. was founded as a patriarchy, in which some men had more rights and freedoms than other men and all women. Through questions like “How Did U.S. Women Gain the Right to Vote?”; “How Did the Civil Rights Movement Further U.S. Women’s Labor Rights?”; “What Shaped Pornography in the U.S.?”; and “What is Title IX?” Sexism and U.S History gives a brief overview of how sexism has affected groups of American women—and how American women and men have worked to reduce sexism and intersecting forms of discrimination.

206 pages, Paperback

Published November 29, 2016

About the author

From 2011-2017, Elizabeth Hall Magill maintained a feminist blog, Yo Mama, and published feminist articles on the news site .Mic, in Role Reboot magazine, and in the anthology Whatever Works: Feminists of Faith Speak. She wrote and published Defining Sexism in the U.S. and Sexism and U.S. History in 2016. In May of 2022, she will complete her MFA in Writing with a Concentration in Fiction from Spalding University, where she has been awarded the Emerging Writer Scholarship, the J. Terry Price Scholarship, the MFA Alumni Endowed Scholarship, and the Mann-Driskell Scholarship. Her fiction has appeared in Limestone.