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Feminism as Life´s Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars

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Description for Feminism as Life´s Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars Paperback. .
With suffrage secured in 1920, feminists faced the challenge of how to keep their momentum going. As the center of the movement shrank, a small, self-appointed vanguard of “modern” women carried the cause forward in life and work. Feminism as Life’s Work profiles four of these women: the author Inez Haynes Irwin, the historian Mary Ritter Beard, the activist Doris Stevens, and Lorine Pruette, a psychologist.  Their life-stories, told here in full for the first time, embody the changes of the first four decades of the twentieth century—and complicate what we know of the period.

Through these women’s intertwined ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813565224
SKU
V9780813565224
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About Mary K. Trigg
 MARY K. TRIGG is an associate professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University.  She has published an edited collection, Leading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change, also from Rutgers University Press, 2010. 

Reviews for Feminism as Life´s Work: Four Modern American Women through Two World Wars
"By exploring the lives of vibrant, significant women who have long been ignored, Trigg adds fascinating new insight to our understanding of the post-suffrage years. Feminism as Life’s Work is a major contribution to the literature on women’s history."
Sally G. McMillen
author of Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement
"Mary Trigg provides ... Read more

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