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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... individual women of color were invited to become members of white - dominated women's groups . Anthony's way to respond to the political complexities of black women's intersect- ing oppressions of race , class , and gender was to slot ...
... individual women of color were invited to become members of white - dominated women's groups . Anthony's way to respond to the political complexities of black women's intersect- ing oppressions of race , class , and gender was to slot ...
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... individual as an inheritor of specific cultural and religious practices . For the individual , little could be done to transcend this racial identity in his or her lifetime , although education and upbring- ing could temper the original ...
... individual as an inheritor of specific cultural and religious practices . For the individual , little could be done to transcend this racial identity in his or her lifetime , although education and upbring- ing could temper the original ...
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... individuals of specific races , classes , and sexes be modified by educa- tion and upbringing to such an extent that they would then transmit to their own off- spring racial - cultural ... individual women who received 121 INTRODUCTION.
... individuals of specific races , classes , and sexes be modified by educa- tion and upbringing to such an extent that they would then transmit to their own off- spring racial - cultural ... individual women who received 121 INTRODUCTION.
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... individual women who received higher educations , became. LINCOLNS EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FIGURE 1-1 Racial uplift and the supplicant slave . Lincoln Centennial Souvenir . Postcard , 1909. White women appropriated and transformed the ...
... individual women who received higher educations , became. LINCOLNS EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FIGURE 1-1 Racial uplift and the supplicant slave . Lincoln Centennial Souvenir . Postcard , 1909. White women appropriated and transformed the ...
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... individual successes only proved to white women that their faith in social evolutionary processes was justified — that such processes did have the power to advance women of “ lower ” races and classes . White women continued to base ...
... individual successes only proved to white women that their faith in social evolutionary processes was justified — that such processes did have the power to advance women of “ lower ” races and classes . White women continued to base ...
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