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Women's activist organizing in US history : a University of Illinois Press anthology /

"This volume commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series in 2022. The anthology brings together chapters and excerpts from previously published books in the series that reflect the breadth of the intellectual commitments of the Women, Gender,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Durante, Dawn (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Difference that Difference Makes
  • 1 "To Cast Our Mite on the Altar of Benevolence: Women Begin to Organize" (Excerpt)
  • 2 "'There Sho' Was a Sight of Us': Enslaved Family and Community Rituals"
  • 3 "The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands"
  • 4 "Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants"
  • 5 "Performing and Politicizing 'Ladyhood': Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism"
  • 6 "'It Was the Women Who Made the Union': Organizing the Brotherhood"
  • 7 "Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II" (Excerpt)
  • 8 "'Black Beauticians Were Very Important': Southern Beauty Activists and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle"
  • 9 "Organizing for Reproductive Control"
  • 10 "Things Fall Apart
  • the LGBT Center Holds" (Excerpt)
  • List of Original Publications
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover.