White women's rights : the racial origins of feminism in the United States / Louise Michele Newman.
Louise Newman reinterprets an important 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Summary: | Louise Newman reinterprets an important 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." Exploring how progressive white women at the turn of the century laid the intellectual groundwork for the feminist social movements that followed, Newman's book thus speaks to contemporary debates concerning the effect of race on current feminist scholarship. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-252) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195086929 9780195086928 0195124669 9780195124668 |