Social justice feminism
Social justice feminism was a movement started by Florence Kelley in the nineteenth century and continued by her protege Molly Dewson in the 1930s. Social justice feminists such as Rose Schneiderman and Mary Anderson strove to pass labor legislation for women to pave the way for protections for all workers.[1] Historian Dorothy Sue Cobble writes in "Halving the Double Day" that activist Katherine Pollak Ellickson "...and many other labor women of her generation composed the core of America's forgotten wave of feminism: the social justice feminism that was the dominant wing of the women's movement from the 1920s to the 1960s."[2]
More recently, activists and writers such as Linda Burnham of the Women of Color Resource Center have proposed an expanded form of social justice feminism that crosses "lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age."[3][4]
References
- ↑ McGuire, John (2004). "Two Feminist Visions: Social Justice Feminism and Equal Rights, 1899-1940". Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. 71 (4): 445–478. JSTOR 27778638.
- ↑ Cobble, Dorothy (2003). "Halving the Double Day". New Labor Forum. 12 (3): 62–72. JSTOR 40342906.
- ↑ Kalsem, Kristin; Williams, Verna (2010). "Social Justice Feminism". Faculty Articles and Other Publications. University of Cincinnati College of Law.
- ↑ Burnham, Linda (2008). "The Absence of a Gender Justice Framework in Social Justice Organizing" (PDF). Center for the Education of Women. University of Michigan.
Further reading
- Sklar, Kathryn; Schüler, Anja; Strasser, Susan (1998). Social Justice Feminists in the United States and Germany: A Dialogue in Documents, 1885-1933. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801484698.
- McGuire, John (2007). "From the Courts to the State Legislatures: Social Justice Feminism, Labor Legislation, and the 1920s". Labor History: 225–246.
- Gray, Mel, Kylie Agllias and Kate Davies, "Social Justice Feminism", in Routledge International Handbook of Social Justice ed. Michael Reisch. (Abingdon: Routledge, 04 Apr 2014), Routledge Handbooks Online.