White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United StatesOxford University Press, 1999 M02 4 - 272 pages 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 |
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... History . 3. Racism - United States - History . women - United States - Social conditions . 4. White 5. Minority women - United States Social conditions . I. Title . HQ1410.N475 1998 97-53286 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United ...
... History . 3. Racism - United States - History . women - United States - Social conditions . 4. White 5. Minority women - United States Social conditions . I. Title . HQ1410.N475 1998 97-53286 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United ...
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... History programs at Brown University over a decade ago , and my greatest debts are to the faculty and graduate students there who befriended and supported me while I was writing my dissertation . Most important , I want to thank ...
... History programs at Brown University over a decade ago , and my greatest debts are to the faculty and graduate students there who befriended and supported me while I was writing my dissertation . Most important , I want to thank ...
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... History and Literature program , Sybil Mazor of Brown's American Civilization program , and Betty Corwine and Kimberly Yocum of the University of Florida's History Depart- ment , for taking such good care of me , far in excess of what ...
... History and Literature program , Sybil Mazor of Brown's American Civilization program , and Betty Corwine and Kimberly Yocum of the University of Florida's History Depart- ment , for taking such good care of me , far in excess of what ...
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... historical contours of Western racial [ and femi- nist ] discourse matters as a political project , it is not as a mani- festation of an other truth that has previously been denied , but as a vehicle for shifting the frame of reference ...
... historical contours of Western racial [ and femi- nist ] discourse matters as a political project , it is not as a mani- festation of an other truth that has previously been denied , but as a vehicle for shifting the frame of reference ...
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... of ) " social progress " of non - white races in terms of their ( lack of ) conformity to Anglo- American Protestant middle - class gender relations . One of the most profound ironies of this history , then , is that at the INTRODUCTION 7.
... of ) " social progress " of non - white races in terms of their ( lack of ) conformity to Anglo- American Protestant middle - class gender relations . One of the most profound ironies of this history , then , is that at the INTRODUCTION 7.
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