No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism

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vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 NANCY A. HEWITT PART ONE Reframing Narratives/Reclaiming Histories 1 From Seneca Falls to Suffrage? Reimagining a “Master” Narrative in U.S. Women’s History 15 NANCY A. HEWITT 2 Multiracial Feminism: Recasting the Chronology of Second Wave Feminism 39 BECKY THOMPSON 3 Black Feminisms and Human Agency 61 ULA Y. TAYLOR 4 “We Have a Long, Beautiful History”: Chicana Feminist Trajectories and Legacies 77 MARISELA R. CHÁVEZ 5 Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”: Feminist Waves, Intersectionality, and Identity Politics in Retrospect 98 LEELA FERNANDES CONTENTS viii PART TWO Coming Together/Pulling Apart 6 Overthrowing the “Monopoly of the Pulpit”: Race and the Rights of Church Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States 121 MARTHA S. JONES 7 Labor Feminists and President Kennedy’s Commission on Women 144 DOROTHY SUE COBBLE 8 Expanding the Boundaries of the Women’s Movement: Black Feminism and the Struggle for Welfare Rights 168 PREMILLA NADASEN 9 Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Peace Activism and Women’s Orientalism 193 JUDY TZU-CHUN WU 10 Living a Feminist Lifestyle: The Intersection of Theory and Action in a Lesbian Feminist Collective 221 ANNE M. VALK 11 Strange Bedfellows: Building Feminist Coalitions around Sex Work in the 1970s 246 STEPHANIE GILMORE 12 From Sisterhood to Girlie Culture: Closing the Great Divide between Second and Third Wave Cultural Agendas 273 LEANDRA ZARNOW PART THREE Rethinking Agendas/Relocating Activism 13 Staking Claims to Independence: Jennie Collins, Aurora Phelps, and the Boston Working Women’s League, 1865–1877 305 LARA VAPNEK 14 “I Had Not Seen Women Like That Before”: Intergenerational Feminism in New York City’s Tenant Movement 329 ROBERTA S. GOLD 15 The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women’s Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class 356 NANCY MACLEAN 16 U.S. Feminism—Grrrl Style! Youth (Sub)Cultures and the Technologics of the Third Wave 379 EDNIE KAEH GARRISON 17 “Under Construction”: Identifying Foundations of Hip-Hop Feminism and Exploring Bridges between Black Second Wave and Hip-Hop Feminisms 403 WHITNEY A. PEOPLES Notes on Contributors 431 Index 435 CONTENTS ix ...