Borrowing from Our Foremothers

Borrowing from Our Foremothers offers a panorama of womens struggles through artifacts to establish connections between the generations of womens right activists. In a thorough historical retelling of the womens movement from 1848 to 2017, Amy Helene Forss focuses on items borrowed from our innovative foremothers, including cartes de visite, clothing, gavels, sculptures, urns, service pins, and torches. Framing the material culture items within each eras campaigns yields a wider understanding of the womens metanarrative. Studded with relics and ninety-nine oral histories from such women as Rosalynn Carter to Pussyhat Project cocreator Krista Suh, this book contributes an important and illuminating analysis necessary for understanding the development of feminism as well as our current moment.