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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... roles delineated for white women . In 1900 , for example , she urged the National Negro Race Conference to “ include women of color , ” arguing that ever since the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments recognized black men as citizens ...
... roles delineated for white women . In 1900 , for example , she urged the National Negro Race Conference to “ include women of color , ” arguing that ever since the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments recognized black men as citizens ...
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... roles on the basis of this identity . Blend- ing religious conviction ( the ideal of Christian evangelical benevolence ) with science ( social evolutionary theories ) and political ideology ( progressivism ) , white proponents of ...
... roles on the basis of this identity . Blend- ing religious conviction ( the ideal of Christian evangelical benevolence ) with science ( social evolutionary theories ) and political ideology ( progressivism ) , white proponents of ...
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... roles by sug- gesting that they were much better off than were African American ( and Asian American and Native American ) women in their own cultures . But evolutionist dis- courses called into question the status of black women , who ...
... roles by sug- gesting that they were much better off than were African American ( and Asian American and Native American ) women in their own cultures . But evolutionist dis- courses called into question the status of black women , who ...
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... roles in the evolution of civi- lization needed to take place . The supposed superior adaptability of the Anglo - Saxon male , previously understood as an advantageous trait in a so - called “ empty ” Ameri- can wilderness , was ...
... roles in the evolution of civi- lization needed to take place . The supposed superior adaptability of the Anglo - Saxon male , previously understood as an advantageous trait in a so - called “ empty ” Ameri- can wilderness , was ...
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