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^ Read * Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828-1876 (American Ways Series) by Jean V. Matthews ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828-1876 (American Ways Series) Insightful introduction into early years of feminism As Jean Matthews demonstrates in this excellent survey, feminism has long been a controversial movement. From its origins in Enlightenment thinking, it has challenged longstanding beliefs about women and male-female relationships. Matthews' book offers a study of the emergence of the women's movement in mid-nineteenth century America, charting both its br]
| Title | : | Women's Struggle for Equality: The First Phase, 1828-1876 (American Ways Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.57 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1566631467 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 223 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
Jean Matthews is professor emeritus at the University of Western Ontario, and author of Toward a New Society and Women's Struggle for Equality, a history of the women's movement from 1828 to 1876, also in the American Ways Series. . She lives in Oakland, California
Her focus is the feminist activity of the movement rather than the social history of women's lives. From Library Journal Both of these new titles provide a biographical and political base for dealing with the feminist and political aspects of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, but they examine different time periods and regions. Highly recommended.?Jenny Presnell, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OhioCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Matthews (Toward a New Society; American Thought and Culture 1800-1830, Macmillan, 1990) looks at the roots of th
Insightful introduction into early years of feminism As Jean Matthews demonstrates in this excellent survey, feminism has long been a controversial movement. From its origins in Enlightenment thinking, it has challenged longstanding beliefs about women and male-female relationships. Matthews' book offers a study of the emergence of the women's movement in mid-nineteenth century America, charting both its br
Jean Matthew's new study of the early years of the women's rights movement outlines the period from 1828 to 1976 as a distinct “first phase.” Ms. Her book demonstrates that the intense conflict generated by the movement was due less to any specific reform proposals than to the realizationamong men and womenthat the early feminists were aiming at a complete rethinking of what womanhood meant and of the relationship between the sexes. Matthews situates this early feminist activity within the lively nineteenth-century debate over the Woman Question and pays attention to the opponents as well as the advocates of equal rights for women. Like the late-twentieth-century movement, its nineteenth-century precursor fostered an initial yearning for personal “liberation” and opportunity, and was later riven by issues of race and sexuality, and confused over the perennial question of “difference.” Women's Struggle for Equality builds upon recent scholarship to present a concise synthesis of what
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