Centering Women of Color in Suffrage History

Abstract

their work on everyday clothing and sportswear. A distinction that echoed the adaption in Gibson Girl fashion between the white New Woman and the Black New Negro. In Dressed for Freedom, the author has written a book of interest for dress scholars, cultural historians, and the general public. Thoughmany of the ideas and historical actors in the book will not be new to scholars of dress or costume, groups like the Rainy Daisies or the author’s argument of an extended shared visual language of feminist liberationmay be. For historians and general readers, Rabinovitch-Fox convincingly shows that fashion was far more significant to the development of feminism in the twentieth century than previously recognized.