The rise of the new woman : the women's movement in America, 1875-1930 / Jean V. Matthews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matthews, Jean V., 1937-

Series:

American ways series

The American ways series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--United States--History.

Feminism.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, [2003]

Summary:

Matthews chronicles the changing fortunes and transformations of the organized suffrage movement, from its dismal period of declining numbers and campaign failures to its final victory in the Nineteenth Amendment that brought women the vote.

Contents:

1 The Woman's Era 3

The "restlessness" of women

"Visible" women and the city

Women on campus

Organized womanhood

Varieties of religious experience

Purifying society

the Women's Christian Temperance Union

The suffrage movement at end of century

Women and the Columbian Exposition

The "woman's era"

2 The New Woman and the New Politics 36

The "New Woman" as a cultural type

Education and "race suicide"

The marginality of the professional woman

White-collar working girls and "bachelor women"

Women as the advance guard of the welfare state

Motherhood triumphant and dependent

3 Thinking About the Woman Question 67

The problem of the universal dominance of men

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage challenge the churches and the Bible

Darwinism and the evolutionary paradigm

The "reproductive sacrifice" and eugenics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the dysfunctionality of women's domestication

Olive Schreiner and the specter of "parasitism"

Empirical research and the revival of environmentalism

The stumbling block of the family

4 Feminism and the Problem of Sex 96

Marriage and careers

The emergence of "feminism"

Sexuality, intimacy, and remodeling relations between the sexes

New patterns of heterosexual sociability and companionship

Elsie Clews Parsons and breaking down conventions

Margaret Sanger and the birth-control movement

5 War and Victory 126

The suffrage movement gains momentum

Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Equality League

The impact of English militancy and new tactics

Successful campaigns in California and New York

The "antis"

Alice Paul and the "Anthony Amendment"

Carrie Chapman Catt and the "Winning Plan"

Racism and sexism

World War I and suffrage

Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

6 After the Vote 158

What next?

Initial successes

Backlash and stalling of the social agenda

Alice Paul and the ERA

The meaning of equality

Postmortems on feminism

Disillusions

The post-vote gender settlement

7 The Fate of the ERA 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-203) and index.

ISBN:

1566635004

1566635012

OCLC:

50774309