A brief history of feminism
Schrupp, Antje, 1964-2024
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The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so much more. And we need to know about it, especially now. This book engages, educates, makes us laugh, and makes us angry. It begins with antiquity and the early days of Judeo-Christianity. It continues through the Middle Ages, the Early Modern period, and the Enlightenment. It covers the beginnings of an organized women's movement in the nineteenth century, second-wave Feminism, queer feminism, and third-wave Feminism. Along the way, we learn about important figures: Olympe de Gouges, author of the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen" (guillotined by Robespierre); Flora Tristan, who linked the oppression of women and the oppression of the proletariat before Marx and Engels set pen to paper; and the poet Audre Lorde, who pointed to the racial obliviousness of mainstream feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. We learn about bourgeois and working-class issues, and the angry racism of some American feminists when black men got the vote before women did.
Main title:
A brief history of feminism / by Patu/Antje Schrupp ; translated by Sophie Lewis.
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Edition:
First MIT Press paperback edition.
Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 2024.
Collation:
vi, 80 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in German as "Kleine Geschichte des Feminismus im euro-amerikanischen Kontext". Munster : UNRAST-Verlag. This translation first published: 2017.Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780262548670 (paperback)
Dewey class:
305.4209
Language:
English
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BRN:
461536
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 305.4209 BRI | Available |