Research Catalog

Title

The trouble with white women : a counterhistory of feminism / Kyla Schuller.

Author

Schuller, Kyla, 1977-

Publication

• New York, NY : Bold Type Books, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Description

xi, 287 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"From suffragettes to sexuality, feminist history is often told as a narrative of women united in the fight against patriarchy. But there have always been limits and fault lines in the feminist movements that centered white women's rights at the expense of all others. As scholar Kyla Schuller argues in The Trouble with White Women, white women, across political classes, have used racism and other hierarchies of power to win their own rights and expand their personal opportunities. Their white feminist politics have come at a great cost, resulting in the sustained exploitation, oppression, and silencing of women of color. The Trouble with White Women details the history of white feminist icons and their counterparts from the 1840s to the present. From Margaret Sanger, who promoted racist eugenics and was in conflict with Dr. Dorothy Ferebee, to Pauli Murray, who fought for a more radical vision of feminism against Betty Friedan's homophobic and racist ideas. Today, that tradition endures. So-called feminists continue to advocate excluding trans people from the movement and promote the Violence Against Women Act that has buttressed the greatest carceral state in the world. But as The Trouble with White Women argues, resistance to these white feminist politics has continually emerged from Black, indigenous, poor, queer, and trans women and their movements for liberation. It is only by understanding this complex legacy that feminism can build a movement that honors the radical work and lives of those who suffer most under patriarchy"--

Subject

• Feminism > Moral and ethical aspects > History. > United States
• Women, White > Civil rights > History. > United States
• Minority women > Civil rights > History. > United States
• Minority women activists > United States > History
• Racism > United States > History
• HISTORY / Women
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
• Feminism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Minority women activists
• Racism
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / [Brittney Cooper] -- Introduction: feminist fault lines -- Part I. Civilizing -- Women's rights are white rights? Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frances E. W. Harper -- White sympathy versus black self-determination: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs -- Settler mothers and native orphans: Alice C. Fletcher and Zitkala-Sa -- Part II. Cleansing -- Birthing a better nation: Margaret Sanger and Dr. Dorothy Ferebee -- Taking feminism to the streets: Pauli Murray and Betty Friedan -- TERF gatekeeping and trans feminist horizons: Janice Raymond and Sandy Stone -- Part III. Optimizing -- Leaning in or squadding up: Sheryl Sandberg and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes -- Conclusion: two feminisms, one future.

Call Number

JFE 21-8874

ISBN

• 9781645036890
• 1645036898

LCCN

2021008089

OCLC

1237351034

Author

Schuller, Kyla, 1977- author.

Title

The trouble with white women : a counterhistory of feminism / Kyla Schuller.

Publisher

New York, NY : Bold Type Books, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8874