In: Global gender
"This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women's rights, as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men - William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Philips, James Mott, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell, Stephen S. Foster, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Purvis, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the book demonstrates how thier interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement, marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women, as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War, this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history, women's history, gender studies and modern American history"--
In: Global gender
In: Global Gender Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations used in notes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "Feebler voices?" -- A women's movement? -- Intersections -- Notes -- Chapter 1 William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips: The "man question" -- The "father" and the "mother" of abolitionism -- Abolitionist friendships -- The "woman question" -- Abolitionist marriages -- The London convention -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Frederick Douglass and James Mott: Women's rights partners -- From abolitionism to women's rights: "Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color" -- Marriage: Divisions of labor -- "Manly, not mannish" -- The Seneca Falls and Rochester conventions: Women's rights with and without men -- Women's rights challenges -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Stephen S. Foster and Henry B. Blackwell: Women's rights as men's rights -- Reform as family business -- The test of courtship -- Marriage, divorce, and free love -- "The comparison of opinions" -- "I am the son of a woman, and the brother of a woman" -- The plurality of "woman's rights marriages" -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Robert Purvis and Henry Ward Beecher: Men v. women's rights -- Families of power -- "Woman's rights" v. "man's rights" -- The Beecher-Tilton scandal: Women's victimization in the hands of men -- Divergent woman's rights masculinities -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Frederick Douglass and Thomas Wentworth Higginson: The "back benches" of the women's rights movement -- Woman's rights man Higginson -- "With unusual diffidence" -- Marriages and remarriages -- "Who and what is woman?" -- "Who and what is man?" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Englisch
Routledge
9780367630096, 9780367343781, 9780429325380, 9781000226737, 9781000226751, 9781000226744
Problem melden