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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 22 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by Christina Delaine. |
| Summary |
In Bringing Down the Colonel, 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 Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Pollard, Madeline, 1863-1945.
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Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, 1837-1904.
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History.
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Sex scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Scandals -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Delaine, Christina. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781427294333 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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142729433X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12296928 |
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