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

by Louise Michele Newman

Book Overview

Louise Newman reinterprets an important 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 civilizing missions, progressive white women developed an explicit racial ideology to promote their cause, defending patriarchy for "primitives" while calling for its elimination among the "civilized."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086929
• ISBN13: 9780195086928
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"