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U.S. Women's History : Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood /
Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, the ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current scholarship, examining both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. The book offers a fresh take on familiar events a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface: A Feminist Way of Being-Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt; 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; Chapter 2: "By Any Means Necessary": The National Council of Negro Women's Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power Era; Chapter 3: "This Is Like Family": Activist-Survivor Histories and Motherwork; Part Two: Challenging Established Narratives.
- Chapter 4: The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women's Bodily IntegrityChapter 5: Cold War History as Women's History; Chapter 6: "I'm Gonna Get You": Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the Post-Civil Rights South; Part Three: Rethinking Feminism; Chapter 7: Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White Men; Chapter 8: When a "Sister" Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist Action, 1967-1980; Chapter 9: Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the Battle for Urban Space in Minneapolis.
- Chapter 10: Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of FeminismSelected Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.