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Article: White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. (Book Reviews).
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- Journal of World History
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- March 22, 2002
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White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States. By LOUISE MICHELE NEWMAN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. 304. $19.95 (paper).
Louise Michele Newman has written a book on the racial origins of nineteenth-century feminism in the United States that will anger many white feminists, both in the university and beyond, because, I suspect, they will see how white feminism today remains tied to the social evolutionary discourse that Newman implicates in the justification of nineteenth-century American imperialism abroad and racial hierarchy at home.
Through a detailed and clever analysis, Newman reveals how white women's ...