
Borrowing from Our Foremothers
Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017
- 312 pages
- English
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Borrowing from Our Foremothers
Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Demanding Suffrage
- 1. Setting the Stage
- 2. Parading Their Colors
- 3. Silently Disobedient
- Part 2. Challenging Boundaries
- 4. Addressing the Doldrums
- 5. lgbtq Feminists
- 6. Lighting the Way
- Part 3. Redefining Equality
- 7. Dueling Gavels
- 8. Stopping the era
- 9. Standing Her Ground
- Epilogue
- Cast of Foremothers
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index