392 sider. Orig. paperback. Illustreret s/h. Examines changes in the women's movement in the twenty years following women's suffrage, and describes the complex issues of that period. - ## .... Many of the issues that are central to women today, says Cott, were firmly articulated in the early decades of this century. For example, the problem of defining sexual equality so as to recognize sexual difference between men and women, the ambiguous potential of a movement seeking individual freedoms for women by mobilizing sex solidarity, and the tensions involved in attaining full expression in work and love are all enduring elements of feminism seized upon by women of the 1910s and 1920s. First discussing how feminism was indebted to its predecessors, Cott shows that increasing heterogeneity and diverse loyalties among women in the early twentieth century contradicted the premise of the nineteenth-century "cause of woman" (the singular noun symbolizing the unity of the female sex). From this crisis emerged feminism, championing individual variability and refuting the premise that a singular "woman" existed. Cott focuses on the suffrage-campaign milieu in which feminism arose, giving particular attention to the character and role of the National Womans Party from its militant suffrage days to its advocacy of the equal right amendment in the 1920s. Against prevailing interpretations of the decline of womens political activities after 1920, Cott counterposes the swelling numbers in womens voluntary associations and their political efforts... ## - Hovedværk om moderne feminisme og kvindehistorie . Navn på forside. Understregninger. Forskereksemplar. (Saml. HRN).

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