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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New York :
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1999.
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Table of Contents:
- Woman's rights, race, and imperialism
- Evolution, woman's rights, and civilizing missions
- The making of a white female citizenry : suffragism, antisuffragism, and race
- The politics of patriarchal protection : debates over coeducation and special labor legislation for women
- A feminist explores Africa : May French-Sheldon's subversion of patriarchal protection
- Assimilating primitives : the "Indian problem" as a "woman question"
- Eliminating sex distinctions from civilization : the feminist theories of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Mary Roberts Smith Coolidge
- Coming of age, but not in Samoa : reflections on Margaret Mead's legacy to western liberal feminism.