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Indlæser... The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's Rights and Abolitionaf Gerda Lerner
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A landmark work of women's history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerner's best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimke explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for women's rights. This revised and expanded edition includes two new primary documents and an additional essay by Lerner. In a revised introduction Lerner reinterprets her own work nearly forty years later and gives new recognition to the major significance of Sarah Grimke's feminist writings. No library descriptions found. |
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In researching Weld, I learned about the Grimke sisters, Angelina and Sarah, from South Carolina who, having witnessed slavery first hand on their plantation, were so repulsed that they moved north and became active in the movement. These women were far ahead of the times in their public activism. They lectured and wrote extensively. They were subjected to considerable criticism from the public and press, not only because of opposition to abolitionism, but, many respects, because they were women who purposely and aggressively presented themselves openly. When Angelina married Weld, the couple, along with unmarried Sarah, continued to work tirelessly to fight slavery. Their partnership, based on equal respect, was a powerful one that made their advocacy even more influential. Angelina's rejection of the dominate notion that the proper sphere of women reached only to the domestic realm, when, in fact, she could contribute intellectually and practically to politics and social reform, was radical for the times and certainly prescient of today's awareness.
Lerner's biography of the Grimke sister, now over 50 years old, is written from a feminist perspective drawing attention to their pioneering focus on women's rights. The Grimke's brought to light the stultifying impact of legal and social discrimination and massive male hegemony that pervaded attitudes in the 19th century. The author concludes rightly that the sisters' work preceded and set the stage for the emergence of the women's rights movement identified with Cady-Stanton, Stone, Mott and others. The sisters would stand high in the pantheon of abolition leaders, but our estimation of their influence is even greater knowing of their attention to women's rights.
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