Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch audiobook.
Genre: history
In Mobilizing Woman-Power, suffrage leader and reformer Harriot Stanton Blatch lays out a bold, practical argument for turning women's daily work into organized public power. Writing in the tense, fast-changing America of the early twentieth century, Blatch moves from kitchens, factories, farms, schools, and offices to city streets and legislative halls, insisting that the nation cannot afford to treat half its people as political bystanders. With the eye of a strategist, she examines how women already sustain families, industries, and communities, then asks what would happen if that scattered energy were coordinated through unions, civic associations, and the ballot. Blatch highlights the realities of wage work, the constraints of tradition, and the ways economic dependence is enforced, while also celebrating the ingenuity and resilience women show in the face of limited options. Part manifesto, part social analysis, the book is driven by a central conflict between entrenched legal customs and a rising demand for full citizenship. Clear, urgent, and grounded in lived experience, Mobilizing Woman-Power speaks to themes of labor, democracy, and the hard work of building collective change.
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Chapters (Approximate)
(00:00:00) Chapter 00
(00:08:13) Chapter 01
(00:23:39) Chapter 02
(00:45:54) Chapter 03
(01:00:32) Chapter 04
(01:14:54) Chapter 05
(01:37:05) Chapter 06
(01:52:49) Chapter 07
(02:06:07) Chapter 08
(02:19:00) Chapter 09
(02:42:36) Chapter 10
(03:03:05) Chapter 11
(03:17:10) Chapter 12
(03:29:51) Chapter 13
(03:44:19) Chapter 14
(04:00:36) Chapter 15
(04:13:45) Chapter 16
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