Beauty Shop Politics

Tiffany M Gill

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic indep... Lees meer

Reshaping Women's History

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes lite... Lees meer

Feminist Coalitions

Stephanie Gilmore

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women's movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but ... Lees meer

Riding Jane Crow

Miriam Thaggert

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad... Lees meer

All Our Trials

Emily L Thuma

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. T... Lees meer

Reverend Addie Wyatt

Marcia Walker-McWilliams

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of ... Lees meer

Beyond Respectability

Brittney C Cooper

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the ... Lees meer

Starring Women

Sara E Lampert

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Women performers played a vital role in the development of American and transatlantic entertainment, celebrity culture, and gender ideology. Sara E. L... Lees meer

Women's Activist Organizing in Us History

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• 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 actin... Lees meer

Surviving Southampton

Vanessa M Holden

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden r... Lees meer

The Life of Madie Hall Xuma

Wanda A Hendricks

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women'... Lees meer

Radical Sisters

Anne M Valk

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Radical Sisters offers a fresh exploration of the ways that 1960s political movements shaped local, grassroots feminism in Washington, D.C. Rejecting ... Lees meer

Chicana Liberation

Marisela R Chávez

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Mexican American women reached across generations to develop a bridging activism that drew on different methods and ideologies to pursue their goals. ... Lees meer

Dressed for Freedom

Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Often condemned as a form of oppression, fashion could and did allow women to express modern gender identities and promote feminist ideas. Einav Rabin... Lees meer

Mother-Work Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930

Molly Ladd-Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-T... Lees meer

Black Women and Politics in New York City

Julie A Gallagher

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Julie A. Gallagher documents six decades of politically active black women in New York City who waged struggles for justice, rights, and equality not ... Lees meer