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Book SynopsisTrade Review"By exploring the lives of vibrant, significant women who have long been ignored, Trigg adds fascinating new insight to our understanding of the post-suffrage years.
Feminism as Life’s Work is a major contribution to the literature on women’s history." -- Sally G. McMillen * author of Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement *
"Mary Trigg provides vivid portraits of four fascinating feminists whose careers spanned the 1910s to the 1940s. Their activities pre- and post-1920 challenge the traditional wave model and capture the intellectual, social, and political shifts that shaped modern American feminism." -- Nancy A. Hewitt * editor of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of American Feminism *
"Trigg’s
Leading the Way is an engaging anthology that encourages both students and educators alike not only to reevaluate our notions of leadership through a feminist lens but also to become more active community leaders ourselves." * Feminist Teacher *
"In this innovative group biography, Trigg uses the lives of four well-known 'modern' feminists—author Inez Haynes Irwin, historian Mary Ritter Beard, activist Doris Stevens, and psychologist Lorine Pruette—to trace changes in the women’s movement and women’s lives after the suffrage movement. Trigg provides a meaningful challenge to the metaphor of 'waves' in US feminism. A valuable addition to understanding this little-studied generation of activists. Highly recommended." * Choice *
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Feminism as Life's Work reminds us - in minute detail - what it took to keep the midcentury struggle for women's rights alive through two World Wars, the Great Depression, and the postwar period … Here, Trigg brings the cause and its champions back to vivid life and reminds us of our debt to unsung feminist pioneers." * H-Net *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Planting the Seeds
2. Setting the Stage
3. Detention by the Male
3. Old Ideas versus New: Maternalism and Equal Rights
5. This Vast Laboratory
6. To Work Together for Ends Larger Than Self
7. Feminism as Life's Work
Notes
Index
