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.
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.
LESLIE BROWN was a professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South, the editor of Voices of Freedom II: A Documentary History, from Emancipation to the Present, and (with Anne Valk) coeditor of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South. JACQUELINE CASTLEDINE teaches interdisciplinary studies in the University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also directs program innovation for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. She is the coeditor of Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945–1985 and the author of Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Justice. ANNE VALK is the associate director for public humanities at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Radical Sisters: Women’s Liberation and the Black Freedom Movement in Washington, D.C., 1968–1980 and the coeditor (with Leslie Brown) of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South.
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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
