Author: Louise Michele Newman Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198028865 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
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This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed an explicit racial ideology to promote their cause, defending patriarchy for "primitives" while calling for its elimination among the "civilized." By exploring how progressive white women at the turn of the century laid the intellectual groundwork for the feminist social movements that followed, Louise Michele Newman speaks directly to contemporary debates about the effect of race on current feminist scholarship. "White Women's Rights is an important book. It is a fascinating and informative account of the numerous and complex ties which bound feminist thought to the practices and ideas which shaped and gave meaning to America as a racialized society. A compelling read, it moves very gracefully between the general history of the feminist movement and the particular histories of individual women."--Hazel Carby, Yale University
Author: Rachel Foster Avery Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484838993 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 372
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Excerpt from Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States: Assembled in Washington, D. C., February 22 to 25, 1891 Women don't love one another} I don't believe it, and, what is more, I know it is not true! And yet, I don't think it will hurt any of us women to heed the divine exhortation. We need to love each other deeply, we need to sympathize and love each other, when we are engaged in very different work and when we don't see at all alike. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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