Miller Patricia
Miller Patricia - Bringing Down The Colonel A Sex Scandal Of The Gilded Age And The " Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington - Paperback
Miller Patricia - Bringing Down The Colonel A Sex Scandal Of The Gilded Age And The " Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington - Paperback
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Description: " I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his." In Bringing Down the Colonel the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard an unlikely nineteenth - century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her "ruined " Pollard brought the man - and the hypocrisy of America's control of women's sexuality - to trial. And surprisingly she won. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade - long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand - and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge - Pollard scandal America is still obsessed with women's sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein we've witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles personal journals previously unpublished autobiographies and letters Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.
Title: Bringing Down The Colonel A Sex Scandal Of The Gilded Age And The " Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
Author(s): Miller Patricia
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250234919
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/3/2020
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
Description: " I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his." In Bringing Down the Colonel the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard an unlikely nineteenth - century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her "ruined " Pollard brought the man - and the hypocrisy of America's control of women's sexuality - to trial. And surprisingly she won. Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade - long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand - and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally. Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge - Pollard scandal America is still obsessed with women's sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein we've witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles personal journals previously unpublished autobiographies and letters Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.
Title: Bringing Down The Colonel A Sex Scandal Of The Gilded Age And The " Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington
Author(s): Miller Patricia
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250234919
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/3/2020
Category: Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
