Tiffany K. Wayne

Woman Thinking (eBook, PDF)

Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent 19th century female thinkers and activists. By analyzing the work of such important figures in post-Civil War American intellectual life_such as Ednah Cheney, Caroline Dall, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith_Tiffany Wayne demonstrates how transcendentalism provided a language with particular appeal to women and helped promote an emerging feminist movement with a similar goal of acknowledging women's right to self-development. Bridging the gap between the traditionally disparate fields of women's history and American intellectual history, this book is as much a re-visioning of transcendentalism_arguing for recognition of its more widespread and long-lasting influence in American cultural life_as a project in historicizing feminist theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216248965
• Artikelnr.: 75137725

Autorenporträt

Tiffany K. Wayne received her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Transcendental Arc
Chapter 2 "The Seeds of Thought": The Feminist Reform Vision of Margaret
Fuller
Chapter 3 "Woman's Right to Think": Transcendentalism in the Organized
Women's Movement
Chapter 4 "A Woman's Life and Work": Self-Culture, Vocation, and the Female
Intellectual
Chapter 5 The Concord School of Philosophy and the Feminization of
Transcendentalism after the Civil War
Chapter 6 Epilogue: Feminism and American Intellectual History