Anya Jabour
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479894147
- eISBN:
- 9781479804078
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479894147.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes a kind of proto-Progressivism in the Kentucky childhood of Sophonisba Breckenridge, the daughter of Confederate veteran, former Democratic congressman, distinguished lawyer, ...
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This chapter describes a kind of proto-Progressivism in the Kentucky childhood of Sophonisba Breckenridge, the daughter of Confederate veteran, former Democratic congressman, distinguished lawyer, and Lexington Herald newspaper editor W.C.P. Breckinridge who would later try to reform the lives of children in Chicago and ultimately become one of the most renowned reformers of the Progressive Era. It examines Breckinridge's prolonged quest to reconcile destiny and duty and how it complicated her coming of age and delayed her professional career, but also led her to find her calling as a progressive reformer. It also considers how Breckinridge's introduction to the suffrage movement and to institutionalized sexism inspired a lifelong commitment to women's rights, and how her pacifism shaped her adult understanding of her father's military service.Less
This chapter describes a kind of proto-Progressivism in the Kentucky childhood of Sophonisba Breckenridge, the daughter of Confederate veteran, former Democratic congressman, distinguished lawyer, and Lexington Herald newspaper editor W.C.P. Breckinridge who would later try to reform the lives of children in Chicago and ultimately become one of the most renowned reformers of the Progressive Era. It examines Breckinridge's prolonged quest to reconcile destiny and duty and how it complicated her coming of age and delayed her professional career, but also led her to find her calling as a progressive reformer. It also considers how Breckinridge's introduction to the suffrage movement and to institutionalized sexism inspired a lifelong commitment to women's rights, and how her pacifism shaped her adult understanding of her father's military service.
Melanie Beals Goan
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813180175
- eISBN:
- 9780813180182
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813180175.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses women's political awakening in the 1890s and their attempts to fight back against a permissive male sexual culture. It traces W. C. P. Breckinridge's sex scandal and women's ...
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This chapter discusses women's political awakening in the 1890s and their attempts to fight back against a permissive male sexual culture. It traces W. C. P. Breckinridge's sex scandal and women's subsequent attempts to defeat his bid for reelection. It also describes Lexington women's efforts to place a statue in the Courthouse celebrating women's values and African American women's efforts to defeat a separate coach law.Less
This chapter discusses women's political awakening in the 1890s and their attempts to fight back against a permissive male sexual culture. It traces W. C. P. Breckinridge's sex scandal and women's subsequent attempts to defeat his bid for reelection. It also describes Lexington women's efforts to place a statue in the Courthouse celebrating women's values and African American women's efforts to defeat a separate coach law.
