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Borrowing from Our Foremothers : Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848-2017
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Title
Borrowing from Our Foremothers : Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848-2017 / Amy Helene Forss.
ISBN
9781496229946
9781496213365
Publication
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations
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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
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
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.
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Genre/Form
History.
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