Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century AmericaLexington Books, 2005 - 156 pages This book explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent 19th century female thinkers and activists. By analyzing the work of such important figures in post-Civil War American intellectual life_such as Ednah Cheney, Caroline Dall, Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith_Tiffany Wayne demonstrates how transcendentalism provided a language with particular appeal to women and helped promote an emerging feminist movement with a similar 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 re-visioning of transcendentalism_arguing for recognition of its more widespread and long-lasting influence in American cultural life_as a project in historicizing feminist theory. |
Contents
Introduction The Transcendental Arc | 1 |
The Seeds of Thought The Feminist Reform Vision of Margaret Fuller | 15 |
Womans Right to Think Transcendentalism in the Organized Womens Movement | 41 |
A Womans Life and Work SelfCulture Vocation and the Female Intellectual | 79 |
The Concord School of Philosophy and the Feminization of Transcendentalism after the Civil War | 107 |
Epilogue Feminism and American Intellectual History | 129 |
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