Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century
2011; Oxford University Press; Volume: 98; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jar219
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
ResumoA distinguished British socialist feminist historian, Sheila Rowbotham here offers a study of reform or progressive advocacies made by women in metropolitan Britain and the United States between the 1880s and the 1920s. Some are familiar through the scholarly literature on which Rowbotham draws extensively: figures such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Beatrice Webb, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Ida Tarbell, Dora Russell, Jane Addams, Clementina Black, Crystal Eastman, Hannah Mitchell, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Ida B. Wells,Teresa Billington-Greig, Henrietta Rodman, Olive Schreiner, Mary Ware Dennett, Sylvia Pankhurst, Harriott Stanton Blatch, Stella Browne, Anna Julia Cooper, Cicely Hamilton, and Mary Beard. Through ten thematic chapters—devoted to matters such as dress, food, sexuality, motherhood, housework, consumerism, and paid work—Rowbotham weaves alternating transatlantic overlays of descriptions, anecdotes, and quotations to suggest the range of their reform activism. For readers unfamiliar with those figures, this book can serve as an inspiring primer on those disparate women's visionary agency. The book is smoothly written, accessible, and easy to complete in one sitting.
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