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What Is Feminism?: A Short Introduction to Main Problems in American Women's History - Softcover

Davin, Eric Leif

 
9783838317007: What Is Feminism?: A Short Introduction to Main Problems in American Women's History

Synopsis

This book is a general introduction to the work of significant women's historians concerning some of the main problems of the field of women?s history. The questions explored are some of the central issues in women's history today. They include the problem of defining feminism; exploring whether sisterhood was powerful across the boundaries of class, ethnicity, and race; the uses to which women put the ?Cult of True Womanhood?; the question of solidarity between men and women; the problem of women?s protective labor legislation; the problem of occupational sex segregation; how woman suffrage triumphed; the dilemma of post-suffrage feminism; and the problem of ideology in art. Anyone who wants to understand what the new women's history is all about will find this short guide useful.

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About the Author

Eric Leif Davin, Ph.D., teaches American history at the University of Pittsburgh and is winner of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Literature Prize. He is the author of Partners in Wonder: Women and the Birth of Science Fiction, 1926-1965. He is also the author of American Labor History Made Easy!

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