Borrowing from Our Foremothers
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Borrowing from Our Foremothers

Reexamining the Women's Movement through Material Culture, 1848–2017

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part 1. Demanding Suffrage
  10. 1. Setting the Stage
  11. 2. Parading Their Colors
  12. 3. Silently Disobedient
  13. Part 2. Challenging Boundaries
  14. 4. Addressing the Doldrums
  15. 5. lgbtq Feminists
  16. 6. Lighting the Way
  17. Part 3. Redefining Equality
  18. 7. Dueling Gavels
  19. 8. Stopping the era
  20. 9. Standing Her Ground
  21. Epilogue
  22. Cast of Foremothers
  23. Appendix
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index