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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... read ( and liked ) every word I wrote ; and Kevin Gaines , who believed in me and appreciated the value of my work , long before I did . Contents Introduction : Woman's Rights , Race , and Imperialism ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • VII.
... read ( and liked ) every word I wrote ; and Kevin Gaines , who believed in me and appreciated the value of my work , long before I did . Contents Introduction : Woman's Rights , Race , and Imperialism ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • VII.
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... believed existed in greater degree and preponderance in white women because of the more advanced de- velopment of their race . “ If the Fifteenth article of [ the ] Constitutional amendment ever gets ratified it will have one good ...
... believed existed in greater degree and preponderance in white women because of the more advanced de- velopment of their race . “ If the Fifteenth article of [ the ] Constitutional amendment ever gets ratified it will have one good ...
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... believed in the myth of the black male rapist and persistently declared that blacks were mired in animalism ? Evolutionist theories helped placate white women who were dissatisfied with their own social roles by sug- gesting that they ...
... believed in the myth of the black male rapist and persistently declared that blacks were mired in animalism ? Evolutionist theories helped placate white women who were dissatisfied with their own social roles by sug- gesting that they ...
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... believed that different races were gendered in different ways , or that gender was race - specific . White woman's rights activists thought of themselves as widely different from white men in sexual terms yet fundamentally similar to ...
... believed that different races were gendered in different ways , or that gender was race - specific . White woman's rights activists thought of themselves as widely different from white men in sexual terms yet fundamentally similar to ...
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... believed that assimilation had been partly successful at home , but they doubted that assimilationist policies would succeed if im- plemented abroad : not only would Anglo - Saxons fail to “ civilize ” the primitives of the Philippines ...
... believed that assimilation had been partly successful at home , but they doubted that assimilationist policies would succeed if im- plemented abroad : not only would Anglo - Saxons fail to “ civilize ” the primitives of the Philippines ...
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