The grounding of modern feminism /
Nancy F. Cott offers a new interpretation of feminism in the United States during the early decades of the century -- a period traditionally viewed as one in which women won the right to vote and then lost interest in feminist issues. Cott contends that the decades between 1910 and 1930 revealed a c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1987
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| Online Access: | French equivalent / Équivalent français |
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| Summary: | Nancy F. Cott offers a new interpretation of feminism in the United States during the early decades of the century -- a period traditionally viewed as one in which women won the right to vote and then lost interest in feminist issues. Cott contends that the decades between 1910 and 1930 revealed a crisis of transition in which the nineteenth-century "woman movement" was left behind and modern feminism was inaugurated. Cott argues that in contrast to the nineteenth-century "cause of woman" or claim for "woman's rights" -- in which the singular noun symbolized the unity of the female sex-- feminists of the early twentieth century wished to refute the premise of a singular "woman": they recognized increasing heterogeneity and diverse loyalties among women, and championed individual variability. This history -- the story of women who first claimed the name of feminists -- builds a necessary bridge between the presuffrage era and today. -- From publisher's description |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-365) and index |
| ISBN: | 0300038925 9780300038927 0300042280 9780300042283 |