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Writing Out My Heart
Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96
Inbunden, 1995
791 kr
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Frances E. Willard's powerful leadership of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) made her one of the most commanding figures in the reform movements of the nineteenth century. World renowned and a force to be reckoned with, Willard grappled publicly and private with difficult issues, …
Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
Av Lucretia Coffin Mott, Beverly Wilson Palmer
Inbunden, 2002
839 kr
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This landmark volume collects Lucretia Mott's correspondence for the first time, highlighting the length and breadth of her work as an activist dedicated to reform of almost every kind and providing an intimate glimpse of her family life. Mott’s achievements left a mark on reform movements from …
Southern Discomfort
Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s
Inbunden, 2001
1406 kr
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Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and …
Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality
Inbunden, 2003
567 kr
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Questioning the commonplace view of the late nineteenth century as a period of passionless women and so-called Victorian sexuality, this study examines the spread of sex radical thought and notions of free love through American society in the second half of the nineteenth century. During this …
We, Too, Are Americans
African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-54
Inbunden, 2003
584 kr
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During World War II, factories across America retooled for wartime production, and unprecedented labor opportunities opened up for women and minorities. In We, Too, Are Americans, Megan Taylor Shockley examines the experiences of the African American women who worked in two capitols of …
Reinventing Marriage
The Love and Work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer
Inbunden, 2005
520 kr
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At age twenty-six Alice Freeman became the world's first female college president (at Wellesley College). Before going on to become the first Dean of Women at the University of Chicago, she married Harvard professor of philosophy George Herbert Palmer in 1887. A generation before most educated …
Widows and Orphans First
The Family Economy and Social Welfare Policy, 1880-1939
Inbunden, 2005
728 kr
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The experiences of widows and their children during the Progressive Era and the New Deal depended on differences in local economies and values. How did these widely varied experiences impact the origins of the welfare state? S. J. Kleinberg delves into the question by comparing widows' lives in …
Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30
Av Jan Wilson
Inbunden, 2007
578 kr
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The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouseJan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women's reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women's organization of its …
Reading, Writing, and Segregation
A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville
Av Sonya Ramsey
Inbunden, 2008
506 kr
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Beginning in 1867 with the inception of segregated public schools and ending in 1983, ten years after federal court-ordered desegregation, Reading, Writing, and Segregation details the experiences of African American women teachers in Nashville, Tennessee. Sonya Ramsey examines the familial and …
Rape in Chicago
Race, Myth, and the Courts
Inbunden, 2012
1275 kr
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Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiated the extraordinary challenges of rape, as either victims or accused perpetrators. Drawing on extensive trial testimony, government reports, and media …
Cold War Progressives
Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Freedom
Inbunden, 2012
613 kr
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In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, American women of the postwar Progressive Party made the claim that peace required not merely the absence of violence, but also the presence of social and political equality. For progressive women, peace was the essential …
No Votes for Women
The New York State Anti-Suffrage Movement
Inbunden, 2013
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No Votes for Women explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women. Susan Goodier finds that conservative women who fought against suffrage encouraged women to retain their …
When Tenants Claimed the City
The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
Av Roberta Gold
Inbunden, 2014
728 kr
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In postwar America, not everyone wanted to move out of the city and into the suburbs. For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. After the war, tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially …
Nursing Civil Rights
Gender and Race in the Army Nurse Corps
Inbunden, 2015
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In Nursing Civil Rights, Charissa J. Threat investigates the parallel battles against occupational segregation by African American women and white men in the U.S. Army. As Threat reveals, both groups viewed their circumstances with the Army Nurse Corps as a civil rights matter. Each conducted …
Lucretia Mott Speaks
The Essential Speeches and Sermons
Av Lucretia Coffin Mott, Christopher Densmore m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1493 kr
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Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women's rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reformers in America history. Her sixty years of sermons and speeches reached untold thousands of people. Yet Mott eschewed prepared lectures in favor of …
Lost in the USA
American Identity from the Promise Keepers to the Million Mom March
Inbunden, 2017
1275 kr
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Remembered as an era of peace and prosperity, turn-of-the-millennium America was also a time of mass protest. But the political demands of the marchers seemed secondary to an urgent desire for renewal and restoration felt by people from all walks of life. Drawing on thousands of personal …
Beyond Respectability
The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Inbunden, 2017
1275 kr
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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper …
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Inbunden, 2017
1275 kr
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Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made …
Glory in Their Spirit
How Four Black Women Took on the Army During World War II
Inbunden, 2018
1275 kr
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Before Rosa Parks and the March on Washington, four African American women risked their careers and freedom to defy the United States Army over segregation. Women Army Corps (WAC) privates Mary Green, Anna Morrison, Johnnie Murphy, and Alice Young enlisted to serve their country, improve their …
Reshaping Women's History
Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians
Av Barbara Winslow, Julie A. Gallagher
Inbunden, 2018
1315 kr
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Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History …
All Our Trials
Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
Inbunden, 2019
1139 kr
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During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners’ and psychiatric …
Women's Activist Organizing in US History
A University of Illinois Press Anthology
Inbunden, 2022
1239 kr
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Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women's acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology …
Riding Jane Crow
African American Women on the American Railroad
Inbunden, 2022
1275 kr
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Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to "ride Jim Crow" on the rails, the train compartment became a contested space …
Life of Madie Hall Xuma
Black Women's Global Activism During Jim Crow and Apartheid
Inbunden, 2022
1493 kr
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Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women's activism. Wanda A. Hendricks's biography follows Hall Xuma from her upbringing in the Jim Crow South to her leadership role in the African National …
Chicana Liberation
Women and Mexican American Politics in Los Angeles, 1945-1981
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goals. Marisela R. Chávez uses a wealth of untapped oral histories to reveal the diverse ways activist Mexican American women in Los Angeles claimed their …
Black Women Legacies
Public History Sites Seen and Unseen
Inbunden, 2024
1275 kr
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From Black clubwomen to members of preservation organizations, African American women have made commemoration a central part of Black life and culture. Alexandria Russell illuminates the process of memorialization while placing African American women at the center of memorials they brought into …
Schooling the Nation
The Success of the Canterbury Academy for Black Women
Inbunden, 2025
1448 kr
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Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence. Racism in eastern Connecticut forced the teen students to walk a gauntlet of taunts, threats, and legal action to pursue their studies, but the school …
National Alliance of Black Feminists
A History
Inbunden, 2025
1275 kr
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Founded in 1975, the non-partisan National Alliance of Black Feminists (NABF) played a critical role in the Black women’s liberation movement and the fight for the Equal Rights Amendment. The Chicago-based organization’s Black humanist feminism powered a singular dedication to building coalitions …
Habits of Compassion
Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920
E-bok, 2023
568 kr
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The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine through the early twentieth century. Maureen Fitzgerald argues that their championing of the rights of the poor—especially poor women—resulted in an …
Lady Daredevils
American Women and Early Aviation
Inbunden, 2026
1448 kr
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Though often restricted as aviators, women helped build a stable aircraft industry that became the envy of the world. Barbara Ganson delves into the lives of the women whose work as test pilots, flight school owner-operators, airport managers, and in other roles impacted and reflected larger trends …
