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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... less familiar , less natural in its categories , its political delineations and its epistemological foundations . Robyn Wiegman , American Anatomies ( 1995 ) ́N THE SPRING OF 1888 , the renowned suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( 1815 ...
... less familiar , less natural in its categories , its political delineations and its epistemological foundations . Robyn Wiegman , American Anatomies ( 1995 ) ́N THE SPRING OF 1888 , the renowned suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( 1815 ...
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... less determined to keep white women's struggle for the franchise separate from this other concern . More than just a strategy to keep the woman's movement focused on a single issue , Anthony's efforts to avoid this particular ...
... less determined to keep white women's struggle for the franchise separate from this other concern . More than just a strategy to keep the woman's movement focused on a single issue , Anthony's efforts to avoid this particular ...
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... less enlightened men of " primitive ” cul- tures as the worse perpetrators of abuse , when the problems were much more com- plex . ( In the Chinese case , U.S. immigration law made it difficult for Chinese men to bring their wives and ...
... less enlightened men of " primitive ” cul- tures as the worse perpetrators of abuse , when the problems were much more com- plex . ( In the Chinese case , U.S. immigration law made it difficult for Chinese men to bring their wives and ...
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... less advanced society . In other words , evolutionist discourses specified that the sexual differences be- tween ( white ) women and ( white ) men were both the cause and effect of bourgeois patriarchal gender practices and the key to ...
... less advanced society . In other words , evolutionist discourses specified that the sexual differences be- tween ( white ) women and ( white ) men were both the cause and effect of bourgeois patriarchal gender practices and the key to ...
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... less evolutionarily advanced than Protes- tantism.28 For example , throughout the nineteenth century , the subordinate and im- poverished economic status of Irish Catholics as laborers in the United States testified to their cultural ...
... less evolutionarily advanced than Protes- tantism.28 For example , throughout the nineteenth century , the subordinate and im- poverished economic status of Irish Catholics as laborers in the United States testified to their cultural ...
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