Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement - Hardcover

Browder, Sue Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586177966 ISBN 13: 9781586177966

Publisher: Ignatius Press, 2015

Synopsis

Contraception and abortion were not originally part of the 1960s women’s movement. How did the women’s movement, which fought for equal opportunity for women in education and the workplace, and the sexual revolution, which reduced women to ambitious sex objects, become so united?

In Subverted, Sue Ellen Browder documents for the first time how it all happened, in her own life and in the life of an entire country. Trained at the University of Missouri School of Journalism to be an investigative journalist, Browder unwittingly betrayed her true calling and became a propagandist for sexual liberation. As a long-time freelance writer for Cosmopolitan magazine, she wrote pieces meant to soft-sell unmarried sex, contraception, and abortion as the single woman’s path to personal fulfillment. She did not realize until much later that propagandists higher and cleverer than herself were influencing her thinking and her personal choices as they subverted the women’s movement.

The thirst for truth, integrity, and justice for women that led Browder into journalism in the first place eventually led her to find forgiveness and freedom in the place she least expected to find them. Her in-depth research, her probing analysis, and her honest self-reflection set the record straight and illumine a way forward for others who have suffered from the unholy alliance between the women’s movement and the sexual revolution.

About this title

About the Author

Sue Ellen Browder is an award-winning journalist who has appeared on Oprah, the Today Show, and hundreds of radio talk shows. Her work for Cosmopolitan, New Woman, Woman's Day, and other magazines has given her a lifetime of experience with the women's movement as it unfolded in the media, both on the public stage and behind the scenes.  She speaks regularly to women's groups around the country and was recently invited to participate on a panel on the Status of Women at the United Nations.

Review

"Subverted is a game changer for our culture, and in particular, for women." --Abby Johnson, author, Unplanned

Subverted  offers a window into our uniquely disturbed historical era. Generations of readers will turn to Subverted when they want to know, "What was it really like back then?" and "What were they thinking?"  And when they ask what turned the tide, books like Subverted and authors like Sue Ellen Browder will surely head the list.-- Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., President, The Ruth Institute

"What a romp--through the offices, the backrooms, and even the personal lives that brought you the sexual revolution!" --Helen Alvare, professor of family law, George Mason University

"Browder combines a compelling personal narrative with piercing observations from her work in women's media, resulting in a book you can't put down."--Jennifer Fulwiler, author, One Beautiful Dream

"A gripping story that uncovers the dirty secrets behind the women's movement.  A must-read for Millennials." -- Kristan Hawkins, President, Students for Life of America

Edition details

• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1586177966
• ISBN 13: 9781586177966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 232