| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 287 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Demanding suffrage. Setting the stage -- Parading their colors -- Silently disobedient -- Challenging boundaries. Addressing the doldrums -- LGBTQ feminists -- Lighting the way -- Redefining equality. Dueling gavels -- Stopping the ERA -- Standing her ground. |
| Summary |
Borrowing from Our Foremothers offers a panorama of women's struggles through artifacts to establish connections between the generations of women's right activists. In a thorough historical retelling of the women's movement from 1848 to 2017, Amy Helene Forss focuses on items borrowed from our innovative foremothers, including cartes de visite, clothing, gavels, sculptures, urns, service pins, and torches. Framing the material culture items within each era's campaigns yields a wider understanding of the women's metanarrative. Studded with relics and ninety-nine oral histories from such women as Rosalynn Carter to Pussyhat Project cocreator Krista Suh, this book contributes an important and illuminating analysis necessary for understanding the development of feminism as well as our current moment. -- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminism -- United States -- History.
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Feminism. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Material culture -- United States -- History.
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Women's studies -- United States -- History.
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Women's studies. |
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Material culture. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781496213365 149621336X (DLC) 2021015341 (OCoLC)1245579216 |
| ISBN |
9781496229946 (electronic book) |
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1496229940 (electronic book) |
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9781496213365 |
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149621336X |
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