Volume 47, Number 15 · October 5, 2000
The Other Revolution
By David Brion Davis
Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860
by Bonnie S. Anderson
Oxford University Press, 288 pp., $30.00
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
by Geoffrey C. Ward. based on the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes
Knopf, 240 pp., $35.00
Not For Ourselves Alone:The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
by Ken Burns, by Paul Barnes
PBS Home Video, 210 minutes pp., $29.95
Writers have long attached the word 'revolution' to technological innovations such as the now current e-commerce, biotech, and information 'revolutions.' But when we think of 'real revolutions' we are still inclined to envision guillotines, barricades, Bolsheviks, and the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family. Yet when one looks carefully at the Taliban rule in Afghanistan as an example, even if somewhat extreme, of the kind of patriarchy that governed orthodox Christians, Muslims, Jews, and ancient Mesopotamians reaching back for millennia and that shaped even much later secular and socialist forms of male domination, it becomes clear that the revolution of all revolutions has been the relatively recent, peaceful, and still-continuing equalization of men and women.
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