No permanent waves : recasting histories of U.S. feminism / edited by Nancy A. Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hewitt, Nancy A., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--United States--History.

Feminism.

First-wave feminism--United States.

First-wave feminism.

Second-wave feminism--United States.

Second-wave feminism.

Third-wave feminism--United States.

Third-wave feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (468 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today. A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction / Hewitt, Nancy A.

PART ONE. Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming Histories

1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Reimagining a "Master" Narrative in U.S. Women's History / Hewitt, Nancy A.

2. Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism / Thompson, Becky

3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency / Taylor, Ula Y.

4. "We Have a Long, Beautiful History": Chicana Feminist Trajectories and Legacies / Chávez, Marisela R.

5. Unsettling "Third Wave Feminism": Feminist Waves, Intersectionality, and Identity Politics in Retrospect / Fernandes, Leela

PART TWO. Coming Together/ Pulling Apart

6. Overthrowing the "Monopoly of the Pulpit": Race and the Rights of Church Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Jones, Martha S.

7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy's Commission on Women / Cobble, Dorothy Sue

8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights / Nadasen, Premilla

9. Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Peace Activism and Women's Orientalism / Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy

10. Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Intersection of Theory and Action in a Lesbian Feminist Collective / Valk, Anne M.

11. Strange Bedfellows: Building Feminist Coalitions around Sex Work in the 1970's / Gilmore, Stephanie

12. From Sisterhood to Girlie Culture: Closing the Great Divide between Second and Third Wave Cultural Agendas / Zarnow, Leandra

PART THREE. Rethinking Agendas/ Relocating Activism

13. Staking Claims to Independence: Jennie Collins, Aurora Phelps, and the Boston Working Women's League, 1865-1877 / Vapnek, Lara

14. "I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before": Intergenerational Feminism in New York City's Tenant Movement / Gold, Roberta S.

15. The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women's Struggles in the 1970's and the Gender of Class / MacLean, Nancy

16. U.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologics of the Third Wave / Garrison, Ednie Kaeh

17. "Under Construction": Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms / Peoples, Whitney A.

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-56240-1

9786612562402

0-8135-4917-5

OCLC:

642204450