No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism by Nancy A. Hewitt (Eng

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Captures the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise US feminism. This title features seventeen essays that address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States since early nineteenth century.

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No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.

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No Permanent Wavesboldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays-both original and reprinted-address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.

Author Biography

NANCY A. HEWITT is a professor of history and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her books include Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822–1872; Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880–1920s; and A Companion to American Women's History.

Table of Contents

IntroductionPart I: Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming HistoriesChapter 1. From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Chapter 2. Multiracial FeminismChapter 3. Black Feminisms and Human Agency"We Have a Long, Beautiful History"Chapter 5. Unsettling "Third Wave Feminism"Part II: Coming Together/Pulling ApartChapter 6. Overthrowing the "Monopoly of the Pulpit"Chapter 7. Labor Feminists and President Kennedy's Commission on WomenChapter 8. Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's MovementChapter 9. Rethinking Global SisterhoodChapter 10. Living a Feminist LifestyleChapter 11. Strange BedfellowsChapter 12. From Sisterhood to Girlie CulturePart III: Rethinking Agendas/Relocating ActivismChapter 13. Staking Claims to IndependenceChapter 14. "I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before"Chapter 15. The Hidden History of Affirmative ActionChapter 16. U.S. Feminism—Grrrl Style!Chapter 17. "Under Construction"

Review

"From Seneca Falls to hip-hop, this striking collection pushes us to rethink the who, what, when, where, and why of U.S. feminist history. The wide-ranging essays toss out the overly tidy generational model and replace it with complex, rich, and inclusive accounts of our feminist past. Highly recommended." -- Joanne Meyerowitz * author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States *"An important contribution to the ongoing dialogue on the meaning of feminism and its application not just within the academy, but also to a larger and more general political, social, and intellectual forum. Recommended." * Choice *"As an intellectual enterprise the book successfully established the overlapping and intertwined configurations of feminist movements from the 1840s to the present. Hewitt's book is a compelling guide to contemporary interpretations of American feminisms. Its thought-provoking essays will be especially useful in classroom distussions about historical practice."* Journal of American History *"No Permanent Waves offers not only crucial information on the histories of feminism but also evidence for new historiographical claims about how feminism relates to itself across time, positionality, race, region, class, sexuality, occupation, and especially generation. Featuring a range of essays on manifestations of feminism and their relationships to time and generation, No Permanent Waves demonstrated the strength of attending to difference."* Signs *

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No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today. A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.

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" No Permanent Waves offers not only crucial information on the histories of feminism but also evidence for new historiographical claims about how feminism relates to itself across time, positionality, race, region, class, sexuality, occupation, and especially generation. Featuring a range of essays on manifestations of feminism and their relationships to time and generation, No Permanent Waves demonstrated the strength of attending to difference."

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NANCY A. HEWITT is a professor of history and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Her books include Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822?1872 ; Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880?1920s ; and A Companion to American Women's History .

Details ISBN0813547253 Short Title NO PERMANENT WAVES Publisher Rutgers University Press Language English ISBN-10 0813547253 ISBN-13 9780813547251 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2010 Imprint Rutgers University Press Subtitle Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism Country of Publication United States Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt Birth 1951 AU Release Date 2010-01-29 NZ Release Date 2010-01-29 Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2010-02-28 DEWEY 305.420973 Audience Undergraduate Author Nancy MacLean Pages 472 Publication Date 2010-01-29 Place of Publication New Brunswick NJ US Release Date 2010-01-29 We've got this

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