Gender and the Civil Rights Movement

"The most interesting field for new research on the civil rights movement is in the area of gender. This book breaks new ground by moving beyond a discussion of the contributions of individual women and men and covers the gendered basis of internal civil rights politics." -- Steven Lawson * author of Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle * "These provocative, wide-ranging analyses offer refreshing perspectives on the persistently troubling question of the role of gender in American racial politics and bring contemporary debates on the relationship between sex and race into much-needed historical perspective." -- Allison Graham * author of Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and Race During the Civil Rights Struggle *

Peter J. Ling is reader in American history at the University of Nottingham. His publications include Martin Luther King Jr. and The Democratic Party: A Photographic History. Sharon Monteith is reader in American studies at the University of Nottingham. Her publications include South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture and Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Contemporary Southern Fiction. She was awarded the Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship at the University of Memphis, 2001-2002.

Gender and the civil rights movement / Peter J. Ling and Sharon Monteith Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and 1957 Little Rock school crisis : a gendered perspective / John A. Kirk Sex machines and prisoners of love : male rhythm and blues, sexual politics, and the Black freedom struggle / Brian Ward "Dress modestly, neatly as if you were going to church" : respectability, class, and gender in the Montgomery bus boycott and the early civil rights movement / Marisa Chappell, Jenny Hutchinson, and Brian Ward Gender and generation : manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Peter J. Ling Women in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee : ideology, organizational structure, and leadership / Belinda Robnett The "gun-toting" Gloria Richardson : Black violence in Cambridge, Maryland / Jenny Walker "It's a doggy-dogg world" : Black cultural politics, Gangsta Rap and the "post-soul man" / Eithne Quinn Revisiting the 1960s in contemporary fiction : "where do we go from here?" / Sharon Monteith "The struggle continues" : Black women in Congress in the 1990s / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson