{"product_id":"feminisms-empire-9781501763816","title":"Feminism's Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeminism's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e investigates the complex relationships between imperialisms and feminisms in the late nineteenth century and demonstrates the challenge of conceptualizing \"pro-imperialist\" and \"anti-imperialist\" as binary positions\u003c\/b\u003e. By intellectually and spatially tracing the era's first French feminists' engagement with empire, Carolyn J. Eichner explores how feminists opposed--yet employed--approaches to empire in writing, speaking, and publishing. In differing ways, they ultimately tied forms of imperialism to gender liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the era's first anti-imperialists, French feminists were enmeshed in the hierarchies and epistemologies of empire. They likened their gender-based marginalization to imperialist oppressions. Imperialism and colonialism's gendered and sexualized racial hierarchies established categories of inclusion and exclusion that rested in both universalism and ideas of \"nature\" that presented colonized people with theoretical, yet impossible, paths to integration. Feminists faced similar barriers to full incorporation due to the gendered contradictions inherent in universalism. The system presumed citizenship to be male and thus positioned women as outsiders. \u003ci\u003eFeminism's Empire\u003c\/i\u003e connects this critical struggle to hierarchical power shifts in racial and national status that created uneasy linkages between French feminists and imperial authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarolyn J. Eichner teaches History and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSurmounting the Barricades\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Commune\u003c\/i\u003e. Follow her on X @EichnerCarolyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50485276246290,"sku":"9781501763816","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6bb87b6f-932e-4ad3-a45e-cc4fc93604af.jpg?v=1730401462","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/feminisms-empire-9781501763816","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}