EAN: 9780262548670

A BRIEF HISTORY OF FEMINISM - PATU ANTJE SCHRUP...

An engaging illustrated history of feminism from antiquity through third-wave feminism 
featuring Sappho  Mary Magdalene  Mary Wollstonecraft  Sojourner Truth  Simone de Beauvoir  and
many others. The history of feminism? The right to vote  Susan B. Anthony  Gloria Steinem 
white pantsuits? Oh  but there's so much more. And we need to know about it  especially now. In
pithy text and pithier comics  A Brief History of Feminism engages us  educates us  makes us
laugh  and makes us angry. It begins with antiquity and the early days of Judeo-Christianity.
(Mary Magdalene questions the maleness of Jesus's inner circle: People will end up getting the
notion you don't want women to be priests.” Jesus: Really  Mary  do you always have to be so
negative?”) It continues through the Middle Ages  the Early Modern period  and the
Enlightenment (Liberty  equality  fraternity!” But fraternity means brotherhood!”). It covers
the beginnings of an organized women's movement in the nineteenth century  second-wave Feminism
queer feminism  and third-wave Feminism. Along the way  we learn about important figures:
Olympe de Gouges  author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen”
(guillotined by Robespierre)  Flora Tristan  who linked the oppression of women and the
oppression of the proletariat before Marx and Engels set pen to paper  and the poet Audre Lorde
who pointed to the racial obliviousness of mainstream feminism in the 1970s and 1980s. We learn
about bourgeois and working-class issues  and the angry racism of some American feminists when
black men got the vote before women did. We see God as a long-bearded old man emerging from a
cloud (and once  as a woman with her hair in curlers). And we learn the story so far of a
history that is still being written.

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