The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present
1792 to the Present
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- Paperback
503 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2011
Summary
What is the feminist promise? At different times, feminism has promised to bring about world peace, end prostitution, and abolish pornography, the sexual double standard, and the nuclear family. Feminists have promised to make women more like men and to teach men to be more like women, and to make sexual difference irrelevant altogether. They have sought a world where there was less sex, more sex, better sex, and better marriages, no marriage, gay marriages. In other words, feminism has encompassed a wide variety of social views and positions, sometimes antagonistic to one another … Feminists have embraced women’s traditional loyalties to children and kin as a fundamental value, and they have also heralded individualism as the one basis for true freedom. Like any long-lived and durable political tradition, feminism has always promised more than it could deliver. But it has also produced stunning successes, challenging institutions and presumptions that have been in place for centuries.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812972023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812972023 |
| Author: | Christine Stansell |
| Publisher: | Modern Library |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 503 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Modern Library (Paperback) |
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Critics Review
“Stansell explodes popular ideas about the women’s movement with a history that shows its complexity, and the massive internal and external obstacles women are still trying to overcome.”–Chicago Sun-Times “A unique, elegant, learned sweep through more than two centuries of women’s efforts to overcome the most fundamental way that human beings have been wrongly divided into the leaders and the led. It’s full of surprises from the past and guiding lights for the future.”–Gloria Steinem
“Thrilling … a bold, brimming history … reminiscent of The Second Sex in its elegant gallop through centuries and cultures.”–The Texas Observer
“Magisterial … [This book] will be a benchmark.”–The Nation
Christine Stansell
Christine Stansell is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor in United States History at the University of Chicago. She is also the author of “City of Women: Sex and Class in New York City, 1789-1860,” and her essays and reviews appear regularly in the “New Republic.”
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