For the Many (eBook)

American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality

Dorothy Sue Cobble (Autor)

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2021
584 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22059-8 (ISBN)

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A history of the twentieth-century feminists who fought for the rights of women, workers, and the poor, both in the United States and abroadFor the Many presents an inspiring look at how US women and their global allies pushed the nation and the world toward justice and greater equality for all. Reclaiming social democracy as one of the central threads of American feminism, Dorothy Sue Cobble offers a bold rewriting of twentieth-century feminist history and documents how forces, peoples, and ideas worldwide shaped American politics. Cobble follows egalitarian women's activism from the explosion of democracy movements before World War I to the establishment of the New Deal, through the upheavals in rights and social citizenship at midcentury, to the reassertion of conservatism and the revival of female-led movements today.Cobble brings to life the women who crossed borders of class, race, and nation to build grassroots campaigns, found international institutions, and enact policies dedicated to raising standards of life for everyone. Readers encounter famous figures, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, and Mary McLeod Bethune, together with less well-known leaders, such as Rose Schneiderman, Maida Springer Kemp, and Esther Peterson. Multiple generations partnered to expand social and economic rights, and despite setbacks, the fight for the many persists, as twenty-first-century activists urgently demand a more caring, inclusive world.Putting women at the center of US political history, For the Many reveals the powerful currents of democratic equality that spurred American feminists to seek a better life for all.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 6 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: activism • Adviser • Advocacy • African Americans • Amendment • American Nations • americans • Anti-Imperialism • A. Philip Randolph • bolsheviks • Capitalism • Citizenship • Civil and Political Rights • Civil Society • collective bargaining • Colonialism • communism • czechoslovakia • Decolonization • Democracy • Domestic worker • Economic Inequality • Economic Security • Employment • Equality before the law • Equal Opportunity • Equal Pay • Equal Rights • Esther Peterson • Fair Labor Standards Act • Feminism • Feminism (international relations) • feminist activism • Feminist Movement • Frances Perkins • freedom of speech • global feminism • Government • hostility • Household • Housewife • Human Rights • Immigration • imperialism • International Alliance of Women • International Confederation of Free Trade Unions • International Labor Organization • International labor standards • International Organization • International Relations • interracial organizing • Intersectionality • Jane Addams • Labor history of the United States • Labor Policy • Labor Right • labour law • Labour movement • Latin America • League of Nations • Lecture • left-wing politics • Legislation • Liberalism • lobbying • Margaret Bondfield • Margaret Dreier Robins • Mary McLeod Bethune • maternity policy • Member State • minimum wage • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • National Consumers League • National Council of Negro Women • Nationality • National Woman's Party • Neocolonialism • Pan-African • pan-Africanism • pan-american • Pauli Murray • Pauline Newman (labor activist) • person of color • Political Party • Politics • popular education • Racism • ratification • Reform Movement • Rose Schneiderman • Self-determination • Sexism • Social Democracy • Social Insurance • Socialism • Social Justice • Social Welfare • Solidarity Center • Soviet Union • standard of living • Suffrage • Their Lives • third world • Trade Union • Transnational networks • Treaty • Unemployment • United Nations • United States Department of State • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Voting • Wealth • welfare • Women’s International Democratic Federation • women’s internationalism • women’s movements • women’s NGOs • women’s politics • women's rights • women's suffrage • Women's Trade Union League • Women’s Trade Union League • worker movements • worker rights • Working Class • World Federation of Trade Unions • World War I • WTUL • YWCA
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22059-X / 069122059X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22059-8 / 9780691220598