No Permanent Waves

Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism
Herausgeber: Hewitt, Nancy A

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Produktbeschreibung

Captures the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise US feminism. This title features seventeen essays that address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States since early nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 671g
• ISBN-13: 9780813547251
• ISBN-10: 0813547253
• Artikelnr.: 28525419

Autorenporträt

NANCY A. HEWITT is a professor of history and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her books include Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872; Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880–1920s; and A Companion to American Women's History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming Histories
Chapter 1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage?
Chapter 2. Multiracial Feminism
Chapter 3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency
“We Have a Long, Beautiful History”
Chapter 5. Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”
Part II: Coming Together/Pulling Apart
Chapter 6. Overthrowing the “Monopoly of the Pulpit”
Chapter 7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on Women
Chapter 8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement
Chapter 9. Rethinking Global Sisterhood
Chapter 10. Living a Feminist Lifestyle
Chapter 11. Strange Bedfellows
Chapter 12. From Sisterhood to Girlie Culture
Part III: Rethinking Agendas/Relocating Activism
Chapter 13. Staking Claims to Independence
Chapter 14. “I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before”
Chapter 15. The Hidden History of Affirmative Action
Chapter 16. U.S. Feminism—Grrrl Style!
Chapter 17. “Under Construction”