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Introduction to Jessie Taft, “The Woman Movement from the Point of View of Social Consciousness”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Charlene Haddock Seigfried
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Abstract

This essay introduces Jessie Taft's pragmatist feminist dissertation, which was written under the guidance of George Herbert Mead at the University of Chicago in 1913 and published in 1915. It gives a brief biography of Taft and summarizes the four chapters of her dissertation, the second of which is reprinted below.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Feminism and Pragmatism , Spring 1993 , pp. 215 - 218
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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