a history of us feminisms by rory dicker

Feminisms will provide historical context of all the major events and figures from the late nineteenth century through today. Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. She teaches courses in English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University.The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism-intersectionality, sex-positivity

After teaching for several years at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, she returned to Nashville, where she lives with her husband and daughter. in English from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. A native of New York State, Dicker completed her undergraduate studies in English and French at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned her M.A.

Dicker is the coeditor of Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century (Northeastern University Press, 2003). The chapters cover: First-wave feminism, a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth and early twentieth century which focused primarily on gaining women’s suffrage second-wave feminism, which started in the ’60s and lasted through the ’80s and is best understood as emphasizing the connection between the personal and the political and third-wave feminism, which started in the early ’90s and arose in part from a backlash against the movements propagated by the second wave. Feminisms provides historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women’s studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Feminisms provides historical context of all the major events and players since the late nineteenth century through today.Ī History of U.S.

A history of us feminisms by rory dicker