|
|
Article: White Women's Rights: The Radical Origins of Feminism in the United States. (Book Reviews).(Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Southern Historical Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. By Louise Michele Newman. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. x, 261. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-19-512466-9; cloth, $52.00, ISBN 0-19-508692-9.)
In White Women's Rights, Louise Newman sets out to explain a central paradox of white women's activism in post-Civil War America: their commitnent to establishing civil and political equality with white men even while actively constructing and preserving racial and sexual hierarchies between themselves and numerous "others." She finds the answer to this seeming conundrum in the "simultaneous development of two ideologies, ...