"Socialists and Wealthy Socialites, College Students and Former Slaves, Conservative Temperance Activists and Liberal Advocates for Free Love"

"Although Suffrage is largely a work of synthesis, it offers a vital argument countering contemporary claims that the campaign for suffrage was advanced solely for the benefit of white women. DuBois presents suffrage as a movement that was both deeply intertwined with other social justice causes—such as abolition and workers' rights—and propelled by an incredibly diverse cast of women. However, like the Revolution that birthed the United States, the fight for women's political equality suffered from setbacks, moral failures, and internal quandaries that dulled the sheen of its triumph on August 26, 1920."

At The Bulwark, Nicole Penn reviews Ellen Carol DuBois's Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote.

"Headlong Flight from Your Mother's Life"

"The essence of Stansell's argument is that American feminism has proceeded in a lurching and uneven series of stages, alternating between periods of ascendancy for mothers and daughters. Nonetheless, even during times like the 1950s, when it seemed that mothers were securely entrenched, feminism continued to forge ahead, often in quieter ways but with a clear record of achievement nonetheless. Mothers and daughters agree about one facet of the 'feminist promise': it is the struggle to achieve justice and equality in the public sphere. Daughters, however, insist rebelliously that this 'promise' cannot be fulfilled without sweeping changes in the domestic realm that are not just strategic but fundamental matters of justice as well. Mothers and daughters differ about strategies but also, more profoundly, about goals."

Martha C. Nussbaum in The Nation reviews Christine Stansell's The Feminist Promise.