Woman Thinking Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America

by Wayne, Tiffany K.

• ISBN13: 9780739123249
• ISBN10: 0739123246
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Woman Thinking explores the theoretical relationship between feminism and Transcendentalism through the ideas and activism of prominent nineteenth-century female thinkers and activists. By analyzing the work of important figures in post-Civil War American intellectual life, such as Ednah Chency. Caroline Dall. Margaret Fuller, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Tiffany K. Wayne demonstrates how Transcendentalism provided a language with particular appeal to women and helped promote an emerging feminist movement with the goal of acknowledging women's right to self-development. Bridging the gap between the traditionally disparate fields of women's history and American intellectual history, this book is as much a revision of Transcendentalism-arguing for recognition of the movement's more widespread and long-lasting influence in American cultural life-as it is a project in historicizing feminist theory. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Tiffany K. Wayne is an Affiliated Scholar with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: The Transcendental Arc	p. 1
"The Seeds of Thought": The Feminist Reform Vision of Margaret Fuller	p. 15
"Woman's Right to Think": Transcendentalism in the Organized Women's Movement	p. 41
"A Woman's Life and Work": Self-Culture, Vocation, and the Female Intellectual	p. 79
The Concord School of Philosophy and the Feminization of Transcendentalism after the Civil War	p. 107
Epilogue: Feminism and American Intellectual History	p. 129
Selected Bibliography	p. 139
Index	p. 153
About the Author	p. 157
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