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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... Societies for believing in this project enough to grant me a year- long fellowship , and to the University of Florida for providing financial assistance in the summer of 1994 and release time from teaching in 1995–96 . I would also like ...
... Societies for believing in this project enough to grant me a year- long fellowship , and to the University of Florida for providing financial assistance in the summer of 1994 and release time from teaching in 1995–96 . I would also like ...
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... , and physical freedom that society routinely accorded white middle - class women . 16 The woman's movement was never entirely segregated , however , and dialogues between white women and women of color took place in 6 INTRODUCTION.
... , and physical freedom that society routinely accorded white middle - class women . 16 The woman's movement was never entirely segregated , however , and dialogues between white women and women of color took place in 6 INTRODUCTION.
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... society and race rela- tions . First , it limited the critiques white women could offer of the racism and sexism within their own culture because in the end they had to acknowledge that patriarchy had been key to their own racial ...
... society and race rela- tions . First , it limited the critiques white women could offer of the racism and sexism within their own culture because in the end they had to acknowledge that patriarchy had been key to their own racial ...
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... 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 white racial ...
... 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 white racial ...
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... society was undergoing massive and unprecedented social and economic changes that were sparked by the Civil War , a cataclysmic event that left deep scars in the country's collective conscious- ness . Articles appearing in such ...
... society was undergoing massive and unprecedented social and economic changes that were sparked by the Civil War , a cataclysmic event that left deep scars in the country's collective conscious- ness . Articles appearing in such ...
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