Rethinking 'First Wave' Feminisms

Inspired by the 2020 centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, this special issue seeks to rethink “first wave” feminisms in a heterogeneous and expansive way—by pushing geographic, chronological, and ideological boundaries and by broadening the definition of whom we usually think of as early feminists. Far more than the right to vote, early feminism included anticolonialism and demands for national sovereignty, racial justice, labor rights, peace, immigrants’ rights, attention to and remuneration for reproductive labor and domestic work, and sexual sovereignty. The traditional wave model, while difficult to dislodge, offers an incomplete and distorted view of feminist history

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