U.S. Women's History

Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Herausgeber: Brown, Leslie; Valk, Anne; Castledine, Jacqueline

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Produktbeschreibung

The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780813575834
• ISBN-10: 0813575834
• Artikelnr.: 44886117

Autorenporträt

Brown, Leslie

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Foreword
Deborah Gray White
 
Preface: A Feminist Way of Being—Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt
Paula J. Giddings
 
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
 
Part One  Searching for Sisterhood
 
Chapter 1 Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic
Workers in the Northeast United States, 1865–1930
Danielle Phillips
 
Chapter 2 “By Any Means Necessary”: The National Council of Negro Women’s
Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power Era
Rebecca Tuuri
 
Chapter 3 “This Is Like Family”: Activist-Survivor Histories and Motherwork
Ariella Rotramel
 
Part Two  Challenging Established Narratives
 
Chapter 4 The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black
Women’s Bodily Integrity
Danielle L. McGuire
 
Chapter 5 Cold War History as Women’s History
Jacqueline Castledine
 
Chapter 6 “I’m Gonna Get You”: Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the
Post–Civil Rights South
Christina Greene
 
Part Three:  Rethinking Feminism
 
Chapter 7 Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges
and Freedoms of White Men
Jen Manion
 
Chapter 8 When a “Sister” Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist
Action, 1967–1980
Andrea Estepa
 
Chapter 9 Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the
Battle for Urban Space in Minneapolis
Kirsten Delegard
 
Chapter 10 Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory
of Feminism
Anne Valk
 
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index