Hélène Quanquin - Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890

Men in the American Womens Rights Movement, 18301890

This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of womens rights, as important but also cumbersome allies.

Focussing mainly on nine menWilliam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, James Mott, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell, Stephen S. Foster, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Purvis, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement, marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women, as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War, this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society.

This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history, womens history, gender studies and modern American history.

Hlne Quanquin is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Lille (France). She studies 19th-century reform movements and activists. She is primarily interested in the mutual influence between the personal and the political and the different sites where political work is done and ideas are produced. She has published essays in European and American journals and books. She has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Schlesinger Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the Sophia Smith Collection and the Association Franaise dEtudes Amricaines.

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Men in the American Womens Rights Movement 18301890

Cumbersome Allies

Hlne Quanquin

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Men in the American Womens Rights Movement, 18301890

Cumbersome Allies

Hlne Quanquin

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Title: Men in the American womens rights movement, 18301890: cumbersome allies/Helene Quanquin.

Description: 1 Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of womens rights, as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men - William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Philips, James Mott, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell, Stephen S. Foster, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert Purvis, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement, marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women, as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War, this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history, womens history, gender studies and modern American historyProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020026732 (print) | LCCN 2020026733 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367343781 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367630096 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429325380 (ebook) | ISBN 9781000226737 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781000226751 (epub) | ISBN 9781000226744 (mobi) Subjects: LCSH: FeminismUnited StatesHistory19th century. | Womens rightsUnited StatesHistory19th century. | MenUnited StatesAttitudesHistory19th century.

Classification: LCC HQ1426 .Q36 2020 (print) | LCC HQ1426 (ebook) | DDC 305.420973/09034dc23

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