Politics, Feminism and the Reformation of Gender

Politics, feminism, and the reformation of gender. London ; New York: Request this item to view in the Library's reading rooms using your library card.

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Browse titles authors subjects uniform titles series callnumbers dewey numbers starting from optional. See what's been added to the collection in the current 1 2 3 4 5 6 weeks months years. Cite this Email this Add to favourites Print this page. Catalogue Persistent Identifier https: You must be logged in to Tag Records. Its leader, Frances Willard, was an organizational genius, but its success also reflected the way more modest, ladylike activity could come to the fore at a time when radicalism and suffragism had lost momentum. Because women have so little in common besides their oppression as women, the participants in this struggle inevitably fell into separate groups with different interests, the more so as barriers were breached.

Their history is intrinsically long and slow and uneven, because the changes afoot had to be inscribed in law, but they also had to take place inside individuals and families, and in the spaces between, where education and work and social customs were being reshaped. Although scholarship has often focused on a small band of the usual white, middle class suspects, taking into account the extraordinary diversity of women need not throw this history into disarray. The participants themselves began to talk about writing their own history as early as the s, and in the s Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B.

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In memoirs and authorized biographies, the aging leaders continued to try to shape their own story, and thereafter partisans and journalists kept the subject alive. Renewed feminist activism brought a generation of young women into academia in the s, but most of them were enthusiastic about social history, and tended to write off the story of organized feminism and the fight for the vote as uninteresting, elitist, or both.

Meanwhile, slavery, abolition, and emancipation drew the attention of many gifted scholars, who transformed U. At the same time, some historians began to argue that the proper subject of historical study was not women but gender, and [to put] an emphasis on discourse and representation rather than experience and behavior. Some may continue to elaborate skeptical analyses of the traditional narrative and its famous leaders, which certainly needs more study. Still others will bring together antebellum and postbellum sources to move beyond conventional but unhelpful chronological boundaries, or will expand the terms of historical inquiry so as to include black and white activists in the same frame.

Historians who look to expand the lens and study a range of activists, fellow travelers, and quasi-feminists will probably find that well-chosen local studies offer the best opportunities, as they do generally for efforts to examine the interactions of race, class, and gender.

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A perspective that brings together these concerns by studying the history of citizenship is most promising. Anthony , which include a full run of the Revolution , the weekly paper published by Stanton and Anthony in the late s, are indispensable. Nor should researchers neglect Ann D. Anthony in six volumes. Researchers can also consult published collections of works by individual writers including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maria Stewart. The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited. Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, New York and London: New York University Press, Harvard University Press, Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, Hill and Wang, African American Women and the Vote, — University of Massachusetts Press, Rochester, New York, — Indiana University Press, Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America.

The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. All Bound Up Together: Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights. University of Rochester Press, African-American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, — The Myth of Seneca Falls: The Road to Seneca Falls: University of Illinois Press, Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill, ed. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement.

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New York and Boston, — Chapel Hill: Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: Cornell University Press, ; Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence: Syracuse University Press, Margaret Hope Bacon, Valliant Friend: Mann, — , 1: Placing Women in History New York: Oxford University Press, ; Faye E. Reminiscences, — ; Boston: Pantheon, ; Susan Strasser, Never Done: Pantheon, ; Thomas Dublin, Women at Work: Gordon with Bettye Collier-Thomas Amherst: Kathryn Kish Sklar, Catharine Beecher: Norton, ; Jean Boydston, Home and Work: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1 You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind.

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