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Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists

April Young Bennett

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Description:A new, more diverse generation of feminists is raising questions about how to effect change. Ask a Suffragist channels the first generation of American feminists for modern inspiration. Activists with urgent causes to support don’t have time to read dull history textbooks. Fortunately, American suffragists lived radical lives that were in no way boring. Instead of droning on like an encyclopedia about dates, meeting minutes and genealogy charts, Ask a Suffragist discusses relationships, strategies and activism, focusing on stories that are particularly relevant for modern feminist activists, whether for inspiration and emulation or to avoid repeating past mistakes. Each chapter considers a question today's feminists might ask the great feminists of the past, celebrating diversity instead of neatly pointing readers into one right way of living. After all, the passionate, inspired and flawed people who started the movement often disagreed with each other. What time periods are covered in America’s First Feminists? America’s First Feminists describes events that transpired during the 1830s through the 1860s, when the idea of equality for women was new and its supporters were vilified. Instead of laying out a comprehensive, strictly chronological history, Ask a Suffragist focuses on stories that are particularly relevant for modern intersectional feminist activists, whether for inspiration and emulation or to avoid repeating past mistakes. Does the book only cover the issue of voting rights? It discusses first wave feminism more broadly, including struggles toward abolition of slavery, racial justice, temperance, expansion of educational and professional opportunities for women, the advancement of feminist theology in churches and dress reform (the right to wear pants or bloomers instead of those exasperating dresses and petticoats). For example, the book highlights the work of Harriot Hunt and Elizabeth Blackwell to open the field of medicine to women, Antoinette Brown’s journey to become the first woman ordained as a Protestant minister, and how Sarah and Angelina Grimké defied their slave-holding background to become abolitionists. Who is that on the cover of America’s First Feminists? That is renowned feminist, abolitionist, poet and novelist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Any other black women in America’s First Feminists? Yes. Women of color were vital to the first wave feminist movement. Among the women of color featured in America’s First Feminists are Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the women of the Forten-Purvis family, to name a few. Any male feminists in America’s First Feminists? Yes. Some of the first Americans to support the first wave feminist movement were men, such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Lenox Remond, Henry B. Blackwell and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Are only Americans in the book? The book focuses on American first wave feminism, but the USA is a nation of immigrants and is heavily influenced by the rest of the world. Some of the women featured in America’s First Feminists, such as Ernestine Rose and Marie Zakrzewska, were immigrants to the United States. Some of the stories covered in America’s First Feminists transpired in other countries such as Germany, Poland, England and Canada. But does America’s First Feminists also include the most famous suffragists of the era? Of course. Within the pages of America’s First Feminists, you will get to know Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Santon and Lucy Stone as real people with personalities, strengths and flaws, going well beyond the facts you might find in an encyclopedia entry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists. To get started finding Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2019

ISBN: 1733823913

Description: A new, more diverse generation of feminists is raising questions about how to effect change. Ask a Suffragist channels the first generation of American feminists for modern inspiration. Activists with urgent causes to support don’t have time to read dull history textbooks. Fortunately, American suffragists lived radical lives that were in no way boring. Instead of droning on like an encyclopedia about dates, meeting minutes and genealogy charts, Ask a Suffragist discusses relationships, strategies and activism, focusing on stories that are particularly relevant for modern feminist activists, whether for inspiration and emulation or to avoid repeating past mistakes. Each chapter considers a question today's feminists might ask the great feminists of the past, celebrating diversity instead of neatly pointing readers into one right way of living. After all, the passionate, inspired and flawed people who started the movement often disagreed with each other. What time periods are covered in America’s First Feminists? America’s First Feminists describes events that transpired during the 1830s through the 1860s, when the idea of equality for women was new and its supporters were vilified. Instead of laying out a comprehensive, strictly chronological history, Ask a Suffragist focuses on stories that are particularly relevant for modern intersectional feminist activists, whether for inspiration and emulation or to avoid repeating past mistakes. Does the book only cover the issue of voting rights? It discusses first wave feminism more broadly, including struggles toward abolition of slavery, racial justice, temperance, expansion of educational and professional opportunities for women, the advancement of feminist theology in churches and dress reform (the right to wear pants or bloomers instead of those exasperating dresses and petticoats). For example, the book highlights the work of Harriot Hunt and Elizabeth Blackwell to open the field of medicine to women, Antoinette Brown’s journey to become the first woman ordained as a Protestant minister, and how Sarah and Angelina Grimké defied their slave-holding background to become abolitionists. Who is that on the cover of America’s First Feminists? That is renowned feminist, abolitionist, poet and novelist, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Any other black women in America’s First Feminists? Yes. Women of color were vital to the first wave feminist movement. Among the women of color featured in America’s First Feminists are Maria W. Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the women of the Forten-Purvis family, to name a few. Any male feminists in America’s First Feminists? Yes. Some of the first Americans to support the first wave feminist movement were men, such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Lenox Remond, Henry B. Blackwell and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Are only Americans in the book? The book focuses on American first wave feminism, but the USA is a nation of immigrants and is heavily influenced by the rest of the world. Some of the women featured in America’s First Feminists, such as Ernestine Rose and Marie Zakrzewska, were immigrants to the United States. Some of the stories covered in America’s First Feminists transpired in other countries such as Germany, Poland, England and Canada. But does America’s First Feminists also include the most famous suffragists of the era? Of course. Within the pages of America’s First Feminists, you will get to know Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Santon and Lucy Stone as real people with personalities, strengths and flaws, going well beyond the facts you might find in an encyclopedia entry.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists. To get started finding Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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