No Permanent Waves

Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

By: Nancy A. Hewitt (Editor, Introduction by), Marisela Chavez (Contribution by), Dorothy Cobble (Contribution by), Leela Fernandes (Contribution by)

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No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today.

A respected group of contributors from diverse generations and backgrounds argue for new chronologies, more inclusive conceptualizations of feminist agendas and participants, and fuller engagements with contestations around particular issues and practices. Race, class, and sexuality are explored within histories of women's rights and feminism as well as the cultural and intellectual currents and social and political priorities that marked movements for women's advancement and liberation. These essays question whether the concept of waves surging and receding can fully capture the complexities of U.S. feminisms and suggest models for reimagining these histories from radio waves to hip-hop.

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"From Seneca Falls to hip-hop, this striking collection pushes us to rethink the who, what, when, where, and why of U.S. feminist history. The wide-ranging essays toss out the overly tidy generational model and replace it with complex, rich, and inclusive accounts of our feminist past. Highly recommended." -- Joanne Meyerowitz * author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States *
"An important contribution to the ongoing dialogue on the meaning of feminism and its application not just within the academy, but also to a larger and more general political, social, and intellectual forum. Recommended." * Choice *
"As an intellectual enterprise the book successfully established the overlapping and intertwined configurations of feminist movements from the 1840s to the present. Hewitt's book is a compelling guide to contemporary interpretations of American feminisms. Its thought-provoking essays will be especially useful in classroom distussions about historical practice."
* Journal of American History *
"No Permanent Waves offers not only crucial information on the histories of feminism but also evidence for new historiographical claims about how feminism relates to itself across time, positionality, race, region, class, sexuality, occupation, and especially generation. Featuring a range of essays on manifestations of feminism and their relationships to time and generation, No Permanent Waves demonstrated the strength of attending to difference."
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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming Histories
From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Reimagining a "Master" Narrative in U.S. Women's History	p. 15
Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism	p. 39
Black Feminisms and Human Agency	p. 61
"We Have a Long, Beautiful History": Chicana Feminist Trajectories and Legacies	p. 77
Unsettling "Third Wave Feminism": Feminist Waves, Intersectionality, and Identity Politics in Retrospect	p. 98
Coming Together/Pulling Apart
Overthrowing the "Monopoly of the Pulpit": Race and the Rights of Church Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States	p. 121
Labor Feminists and President Kennedy's Commission on Women	p. 144
Expanding the Boundaries of the Women's Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights	p. 168
Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Peace Activism and Women's Orientalism	p. 193
Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Intersection of Theory and Action in a Lesbian Feminist Collective	p. 221
Strange Bedfellows: Building Feminist Coalitions around Sex Work in the 1970s	p. 246
From Sisterhood to Girlie Culture: Closing the Great Divide between Second and Third Wave Cultural Agendas	p. 273
Rethinking Agendas/Relocating Activism
Staking Claims to Independence: Jennie Collins, Aurora Phelps, and the Boston Working Women's League, 1865-1877	p. 305
"I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before": Intergenerational Feminism in New York City's Tenant Movement	p. 329
The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women's Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class	p. 356
U.S. Feminism-Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologies of the Third Wave	p. 379
"Under Construction": Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms	p. 403
Notes on Contributors	p. 431
Index	p. 435
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