In Refounding Democracy through Intersectional Activism, Wendy Sarvasy recovers the unacknowledged Progressive Era social democratic feminist refounders who used collective political agency to reshape the body politic. Through intersectional activism, or the bridging of different movements, the refounders, who include Ida Wells-Barnett, Rose Schneiderman, and Jane Addams, created an intersectional, social democratic feminist understanding of democracy that allowed them to imagine their full inclusion. Sarvasy shows how these activists worked to incorporate women by combining political democracy with the creation of a welfare state. They embedded this nation-state project within a new humanitarian transnational level as they evolved their multileveled social citizenship.Refounding Democracy through Intersectional Activism demonstrates how a theory-activist dynamic played out in experimental socializing spaces and democratic conversations. It offers an inspirational method for intersectional activists today.
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CONTRIBUTORS: Wendy Sarvasy
EAN: 9781439924242
COUNTRY: United States
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HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Temple University Press,U.S.
DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-06-17
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GENRE: HISTORY / Women, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Gender studies: women and girls, Feminism and feminist theory, Politics and government
Wendy Sarvasy is Lecturer Emerita of Political Science at California State University, East Bay.
