With suffrage secured in 1920, feminists faced the challenge of how
to keep their momentum going. As the center of the movement shrank,
a small, self-appointed vanguard of "modern" women carried the
cause forward in life and work. "Feminism as Life's Work" profiles
four of these women: the author Inez Haynes Irwin, the historian
Mary Ritter Beard, the activist Doris Stevens, and Lorine Pruette,
a psychologist. Their life-stories, told here in full for the first
time, embody the changes of the first four decades of the twentieth
century--and complicate what we know of the period.
Through these women's intertwined stories, Mary Trigg traces the
changing nature of the women's movement across turbulent decades
rent by world war, revolution, global depression, and the rise of
fascism. Criticizing the standard division of feminist activism as
a series of historical waves, Trigg exposes how Irwin, Beard,
Stevens, and Pruette helped push the U.S. feminist movement to
victory and continued to propel it forward from the 1920s to the
1960s, decades not included in the "wave" model. At a time widely
viewed as the "doldrums" of feminism, the women in this book were
in fact taking the cause to new sites: the National Women's Party;
sexuality and relations with men; marriage; and work and financial
independence. In their utopian efforts to reshape work, sexual
relations, and marriage, modern feminists ran headlong into the
harsh realities of male power, the sexual double standard, the
demands of motherhood, and gendered social structures.
In "Feminism as Life's Work," Irwin, Beard, Stevens, and Pruette
emerge as the heirs of the suffrage movement, guardians of a long
feminist tradition, and catalysts of the belief in equality and
difference. Theirs is a story of courage, application, and
perseverance--a story that revisits the "bleak and lonely years" of
the U.S. women's movement and emerges with a fresh perspective of
the history of this pivotal era.
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