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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... 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 States of America on acid - free paper Acknowledgments I prog BEGAN THIS ...
... 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 States of America on acid - free paper Acknowledgments I prog BEGAN THIS ...
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... that is , to establish the white woman as the primary definer and beneficiary of woman's rights at a time when the country was growing increasingly hostile toward attempts to redress the political , social , and economic 4 INTRODUCTION.
... that is , to establish the white woman as the primary definer and beneficiary of woman's rights at a time when the country was growing increasingly hostile toward attempts to redress the political , social , and economic 4 INTRODUCTION.
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... social , and economic injustices to which African Americans were subjected . White women's expressions of resentment over the en- franchisement of black men and these women's subsequent decision to keep the movement clear of “ race ...
... social , and economic injustices to which African Americans were subjected . White women's expressions of resentment over the en- franchisement of black men and these women's subsequent decision to keep the movement clear of “ race ...
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... ( social evolutionary theories ) and political ideology ( progressivism ) , white proponents of woman's rights helped create new roles for themselves that explicitly maintained the racial hierarchies that were based on the presumption ...
... ( social evolutionary theories ) and political ideology ( progressivism ) , white proponents of woman's rights helped create new roles for themselves that explicitly maintained the racial hierarchies that were based on the presumption ...
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... social activism . They asserted their duty to “ elevate ” and “ uplift ” the masses of black women , upholding the values of domes- ticity , chastity , temperance , and piety that the white middle classes considered to be evidence of a ...
... social activism . They asserted their duty to “ elevate ” and “ uplift ” the masses of black women , upholding the values of domes- ticity , chastity , temperance , and piety that the white middle classes considered to be evidence of a ...
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