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No Permanent Waves

Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt; Introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt
Rutgers University Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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When the Center Is on Fire

Passionate Social Theory for Our Times

University of Texas Press

A provocative reappraisal of how classic social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim—can help us understand the social traumas of the twenty-first century, including 9/11.

  • Copyright year: 2008
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