Woman Thinking Feminism and Transcendentalism

This book explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent 19th century female thinkers and activists such as Ednah Cheney, Caroline Dall, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.

Tiffany K. Wayne is an Affiliated Scholar with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.

List of Figures

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction: The Transcendental Arc

1

(14)

``The Seeds of Thought'': The Feminist Reform Vision of Margaret Fuller

15

(26)

``Woman's Right to Think'': Transcendentalism in the Organized Women's Movement

41

(38)

``A Woman's Life and Work'': Self-Culture, Vocation, and the Female Intellectual

79

(28)

The Concord School of Philosophy and the Feminization of Transcendentalism after the Civil War

107

(22)

Epilogue: Feminism and American Intellectual History

129

(10)

Selected Bibliography

139

(14)

Index

153

(4)

About the Author

157

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Woman Thinking Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America

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