White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States by Louise Michele Newman

White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States

Louise Michele Newman

272 pages • first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism history race informative reflective medium-paced
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This study reinterprets a crucial 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 civ...

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