White women's rights : the racial origins of feminism in the United States /

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A reinterpretation of the history of the American women's movement. The book traces the intellectual roots of the women's movement, revealing how it took on racial overtones and demonstrating that white, middle-class women laid the intellectual groundwork for the social movements that foll...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Newman, Louise Michele
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Feminism > United States > History.
Women's rights > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Women, White > United States > Social conditions.
Minority women > United States > Social conditions.
Minority women.
Féminisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Femmes > Droits > États-Unis > Histoire.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Blanches > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Femmes issues des minorités.
Femmes issues des minorités > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Minority women
Feminism
Minority women > Social conditions
Racism
Women's rights
Feminisme.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Blanken.
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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