Feminists Revision History
Author | : Ann-Louise Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813520643 |
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Author | : Ann-Louise Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780813520643 |
Author | : Estelle Freedman |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307416240 |
Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women’s movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A truly global movement, as vital and dynamic in the developing world as it is in the West, feminism has helped women achieve authority in politics, sports, and business, and has mobilized public concern for once-taboo issues like rape, domestic violence, and breast cancer. And yet much work remains before women attain real equality. In this fascinating book, Freedman examines the historical forces that have fueled the feminist movement over the past two hundred years–and explores how women today are looking to feminism for new approaches to issues of work, family, sexuality, and creativity. Freedman begins with an incisive analysis of what feminism means and why it took root in western Europe and the United States at the end of the eighteenth century. The rationalist, humanistic philosophy of the Enlightenment, which ignited the American Revolution, also sparked feminist politics, inspiring such pioneers as Mary Wollstonecraft and Susan B. Anthony. Race has always been as important as gender in defining feminism, and Freedman traces the intricate ties between women’s rights and abolitionism in the United States in the years before the Civil War and the long tradition of radical women of color, stretching back to the impassioned rhetoric of Sojourner Truth. As industrialism and democratic politics spread after World War II, feminist politics gained momentum and sophistication throughout the world. Their impact began to be felt in every aspect of society–from the workplace to the chambers of government to relations between the sexes. Because of feminism, Freedman points out, the line between the personal and the political has blurred, or disappeared, and issues once considered “merely” private–abortion, sexual violence, homosexuality, reproductive health, beauty and body image–have entered the public arena as subjects of fierce, ongoing debate. Freedman combines a scholar’s meticulous research with a social critic’s keen eye. Sweeping in scope, searching in its analysis, global in its perspective, No Turning Back will stand as a defining text in one of the most important social movements of all time.
Author | : Ann-Louise Shapiro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The essays in this volume set out to explore the effects of bringing feminist theory to the traditionally empirical discipline of history. The authors reexamine the assumptions, methods, and content of traditional history as they demonstrate what a revisioned, rewritten history would look like. From a variety of feminist perspectives, these essays explore how we know what we know and what counts as knowledge, calling into question the self-evidence of the evidence itself and challenging traditional categories of analysis. As women's history enters its third decade, these feminist historians collectively call for new directions in research that address not just the effects of gender difference, but differences organized along multiple axes, including race, ethnicity, class, nationality, and sexuality. The contributors are Ava Baron, Judith Bennett, Marilyn Katz, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Nell Painter, Sylvia Schafer, Ann-Louise Shapiro, Mrinalini Sinha, Bonnie Smith, Carolyn Steedman, Jennifer Terry, and Vron Ware. Key Points: 1. Contributors apply feminist theory in a way that is completely accessible to students and traditional historians. 2. Book covers a variety of historical periods and places.
Author | : Ann-Marie Gallagher |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317877586 |
Feminist history continues to change the way history is written, and in doing so changes our view of the past. The authors of this collection explore how issues of sexuality, class, nationalism and colonialism informed the ways in which women were represented and continue to be represented in history. They show the ways in which women have been excluded, silenced and misrepresented in stories of the past, and how women's lives have been distorted or simplified in conventional historical accounts. Together, they suggest fresh ways of approaching women's history, and use examples of work in new areas of research such as women's health and leisure in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the various methodologies being proposed.
Author | : Miriam Schneir |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2014-06-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804152462 |
This essential volume brings together more than forty of the most important historical writings on feminism, covering 150 years of the struggle for women’s freedom. Spanning the American Revolution to the first decades of the twentieth century, these works—many long out of print or forgotten—are finally brought out of obscurity and into the light of contemporary analysis and criticism. This richly diverse collection contains excerpts from books, essays, speeches, documents, and letters, as well as poetry, drama, and fiction by major feminist writers, including: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Sand, Mary Wollstonecraft, Abigail Adams, Emma Goldman, Friedrich Engels, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, John Stuart Mill, Margaret Sanger, Virginia Woolf, and many others. The pieces in Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings cover the crucial challenges faced by women, including marriage as an instrument of oppression; a woman's desire to control her own body; the economic independence of women; and the search for selfhood, and extensive commentaries by the editor help the reader see the historical context of each selection.
Author | : Judith P. Zinsser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
As one twentieth-century historian described it, "the subject matter of history is always men in the midst of other men - men in collectives and groups." Simply put, until the late 1960s women were not viewed as an integral part of the historical record. The few who did appear had predictable roles as the mothers and daughters, wives and mistresses of famous men. Extraordinary figures like the queens of sixteenth-century Europe or the nineteenth-century reformers in the United States, though praised for having taken on male roles, still could not escape patronizing phrases and denigrating stereotypes. Not only was history the study of "man", but the profession itself had a skewed definition. The writing of history seemed a masculine prerogative, the historian a "gentleman scholar" mediating between the past and the present. In this first full-length study of the impact of feminism on history, Judith P. Zinsser traces the ways in which self-declared feminist scholars have worked since the early 1970s to present "the other half of history." They created a new field - the study of women - and a new perspective - gender. Zinsser vividly conjures up the heady excitement of the first women's history programs, as well as the protracted struggles over access to and equal status in faculty departments, scholarly publications, and professional organizations such as the American Historical Association. Feminist scholars have, in fact, forced the inclusion of women as fully participating members of the profession and the academy. Zinsser also writes about feminist initiatives outside of colleges and universities. She gives the first detailed account of the most influential of these "grassroots" initiatives, the National Women's History Project. In surveying the impact of all that has changed and all that has remained the same, Zinsser concludes that for feminist historians it appears to be a question of "a glass half full or a glass half empty."
Author | : Rory Dicker |
Publisher | : Seal Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2008-05-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1580052347 |
An introductory primer on feminism in the United States covers the movement's first three waves from the late-nineteenth-century through today while placing major events and contributors in a historical context, in an account complemented by a reading guide for further study. Original.
Author | : Betty Friedan |
Publisher | : Penguin Classics |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780141192055 |
When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver
Author | : Sheila Rowbotham |
Publisher | : London : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
'An important and valuable achievement.' --New York Times 'Groundbreaking ... One of the first books to make women's history available to a wide audience.' --Guardian
Author | : William L. O'Neill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2017-07-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351519964 |
William L. O'Neill's lively history of American women's struggle for equality is written with style and a keen sense for the variety of possible interpretations of 150 years of the feminist movement, from its earliest stirring in the 1830's to the latest developments in the 1980s. O'Neill's most controversial thesis is that the feminist movements of the past have largely failed, and for reasons that remains of deep concern; the movements have never come to grips with the fact that marriage and the family are the chief obstacles to women's emancipation. O'Neill also holds that the sexual revolution of the 1920s, far from liberating women, actually undermined their role in American life. O'Neill treats seriously the ideas of the great feminist leaders and their organizations. His was the first book to deal directly with the failure of feminism as a social force in American society; to tie together the scattered people and events in the history of American women; and to examine seriously feminist experience in the twentieth century. Since the women's agenda is hardly complete, the women's movement remains active, often militantly so. In this new revised edition, O'Neill interprets and illumines not only the history of feminism, but aspects of feminism that still trouble us today. O'Neill's book was widely heralded upon its initial publication. Elizabeth Janeway, writing for Saturday Review, calls it "a truly intelligent discussion...an extraordinary perceptive analysis." Carl Degler, in the Magazine of History calls A History of American Feminism "the most challenging and exciting book on the subject of women to appear in years." And Lionel Tiger, writing for the NewRepublic, says that "O'Neill has turned his mastery of a wide range of historical sources into a lively, engaging, and almost faultlessly sensible book."