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OverviewWomen 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 presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History. Assembled to commemorate the series' thirty-fifth anniversary, the collection looks at two hundred years of labor, activist, legal, political, and community organizing by women against racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality. The authors confront how the multiple identities of an organization's members presented challenging dilemmas and share the histories of how women created change by working against inequitable social and structural systems. Insightful and provocative, Women’s Activist Organizing in US History draws on both classic texts and recent bestsellers to reveal the breadth of activism by women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors: Daina Ramey Berry, Melinda Chateauvert, Tiffany M. Gill, Nancy A. Hewitt, Treva B. Lindsey, Anne Firor Scott, Charissa J. Threat, Anne M. Valk, Lara Vapnek, and Deborah Gray White Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dawn Durante , Deborah Gray White , Daina Ramey Berry , Melinda ChateauvertPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9780252086410ISBN 10: 0252086414 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 12 April 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: The Difference that Difference Makes 1 Deborah Gray White 1 “To Cast Our Mite on the Altar of Benevolence: Women Begin to Organize” (Excerpt) 13 Anne Firor Scott 2 “‘There Sho’ Was a Sight of Us’: Enslaved Family and Community Rituals” 33 Daina Ramey Berry 3 “The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands” 60 Lara Vapnek 4 “Latin Women from Exiles to Immigrants” 86 Nancy A. Hewitt 5 “Performing and Politicizing ‘Ladyhood’: Black Washington Women and New Negro Suffrage Activism” 111 Treva B. Lindsey 6 “‘It Was the Women Who Made the Union’: Organizing the Brotherhood” 138 Melinda Chateauvert 7 “Nurse or Soldier? White Male Nurses and World War II” (Excerpt) 158 Charissa J. Threat 8 “‘Black Beauticians Were Very Important’: Southern Beauty Activists and the Modern Black Freedom Struggle” 180 Tiffany M. Gill 9 “Organizing for Reproductive Control” 205 Anne M. Valk 10 “Things Fall Apart; the LGBT Center Holds” (Excerpt) 235 Deborah Gray White List of Original Publications 251 Contributors 253 Index 255ReviewsThis anthology represents the distance that scholarship has come since the last quarter century of the twentieth century. White middle-class women are no longer the starting point of all feminist scholarship and we now consider how various variables intersect and overlap to influence identity. And for all kinds of reasons, this is something to celebrate. --Deborah Gray White, from the Introduction Author InformationDawn Durante is the editor in chief at the University of Texas Press and the compiler of 100 Years of Suffrage: A University of Illinois Press Anthology. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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