| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Woman Thinking: Feminism and Transcendentalism in Nineteenth-Century America. By Tiffany K. Wayne. (Lanham: Lexington, 2005. xiv, 156 pp. $70.00, ISBN 0-7391-0759-3.)

In a speech she delivered before the Society for Philosophical Enquiry in May 1895, Caroline Healey Dall told listeners that the history of Transcendentalism had begun

with a woman's life and work in 1637, and had end[ed] with a woman's work and death in 1850. The arc, which we call transcendental, was subtended by a chord held at first by Anne Hutchinson, and lost in the Atlantic waves with Margaret Fuller.

Yes and no, Tiffany K. Wayne tells us. She agrees with Dall's challenge to the narrative that presents Transcendentalism as an exclusively male project. However, she revises Dall's focus on Fuller, suggesting instead that Transcendentalism was a gendered discourse to which a host of women contributed.

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