Woman Thinking Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America
, by Wayne, Tiffany K.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780739123249 | 0739123246
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 11/15/2007
Woman Thinking explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and Transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent nineteenth-century female thinkers and activists. By analyzing the work of important figures in post-Civil War American intellectual life, such as Ednah Chency. Caroline Dall. Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Tiffany K. Wayne demonstrates how Transcendentalism provided a language with particular appeal to women and helped promote an emerging feminist movement with the 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 revision of Transcendentalism-arguing for recognition of the movement's more widespread and long-lasting influence in American cultural life-as it is a project in historicizing feminist theory. Book jacket.