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White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States (1st Edition) by Louise Michele Newman (Assistant Professor, Department Of History, University Of Florida) Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-19-512466-9 / 0195124669 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-512466-8 / 9780195124668 This study reinterprets a crucial period (1870s-1920s) in the history of women's rights, focusing attention on a core contradiction at the heart of early feminist theory. At a time when white elites were concerned with imperialist projects and civilizing missions, progressive white women developed a |