Dorothy Cobble's magnificent, sweeping saga of the 100 plus year struggle for “full rights feminism” introduces us to myriad activists who sought common ground in the expansion of civil, political, economic and social rights as the key for raising the standard for working women, and by extension for all of humanity. However, as Cobble notes, some full-rights activists did not measure up to the potential of this feminism. The juxtaposition of the activism of Black full-rights feminists helps expose this fault line of unexamined deep-seated racism, ethnocentrism, and stereotypical thinking that undermined the potential of full-rights feminism. Questions of economic and political democracy shaped the organizing efforts of Black full-rights feminists against disfranchisement, lynching, discrimination in housing, education and employment, and exclusion and segregation from public accommodations. In their transnational work, they supported policies and practices structured by Cold War imperatives, American racism and imperialism, and tensions between democracy and incipient autocracy in the emerging African nations. Cobble's book demonstrates the crucial ways that Black activists working together and with white allies pushed for the expansive promise of full-rights feminism, encompassing both political and economic rights and race and gender justice.

多萝西·科布尔 (Dorothy Cobble) 为“全权女权主义”奋斗 100 多年的壮丽传奇向我们介绍了无数积极分子，他们在扩大公民、政治、经济和社会权利方面寻求共同点，以此作为提高职业女性标准的关键，并延伸到全人类。然而，正如 Cobble 所指出的，一些全权活动家没有达到这种女权主义的潜力。黑人全权女权主义者的激进主义并置有助于揭露这种未经审查的根深蒂固的种族主义、种族中心主义和破坏全权女权主义潜力的陈规定型思维的断层线。经济和政治民主问题塑造了黑人全权女权主义者的组织努力，反对剥夺公民权、私刑、住房、教育和就业方面的歧视，排斥和隔离在公共设施之外。在他们的跨国工作中，他们支持由冷战命令、美国种族主义和帝国主义以及新兴非洲国家民主与初期独裁之间的紧张关系所构成的政策和实践。Cobble 的书展示了黑人活动家与白人盟友一起努力推动全权女权主义的广泛承诺的关键方式，其中包括政治和经济权利以及种族和性别正义。