What Is Feminism?

This book is a general introduction to the work of significant women's historians concerning some of the main problems of the field of women s history. The questions explored are some of the central issues in women's history today. They include the problem of defining feminism; exploring whether sisterhood was powerful across the boundaries of class, ethnicity, and race; the uses to which women put the Cult of True Womanhood ; the question of solidarity between men and women; the problem of women s protective labor legislation; the problem of occupational sex segregation; how woman suffrage triumphed; the dilemma of post-suffrage feminism; and the problem of ideology in art. Anyone who wants to understand what the new women's history is all about will find this short guide useful.