Nina Baym, in “The Agony of Feminism,” says, “Feminist theory’s main point–that no coherent definition of that crucial feminist term ‘woman’ underlay our diverse undertakings–was undoubtedly correct. But feminist theory’s obsessive complaints over, alternately, the dearth or surplus of concepts of ‘woman’ in our work seemed to reanimate the disabling essentialism that our practical feminism had hoped to escape.“ First, explain what this means.
Then apply the idea of ‘diverse undertakings’ to each of the texts for this week. What can each one of these proto-feminist writers tell us about ‘disabling essentialism’? What other issues are at stake for this women, even as they argue for equal rights for women?
Read: John Rollin Ridge, from The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta The Cherokee Memorials, Memorial of the Cherokee Council Briefly research Cherokee Removal, the Indian Removal Act (1830), and the Trail of Tears.
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