Gender and the civil rights movement /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ling, Peter J. (Peter John), 1956-, Monteith, Sharon
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004.
Edition:	1st pbk. ed.
Subjects:	African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century. Women civil rights workers > United States > History > 20th century. African American women civil rights workers > History > 20th century. Sex role > United States > History > 20th century. Sexism > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Gender and the civil rights movement / Peter J. Ling and Sharon Monteith
Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and 1957 Little Rock school crisis : a gendered perspective / John A. Kirk
Sex machines and prisoners of love : male rhythm and blues, sexual politics, and the Black freedom struggle / Brian Ward
"Dress modestly, neatly
as if you were going to church" : respectability, class, and gender in the Montgomery bus boycott and the early civil rights movement / Marisa Chappell, Jenny Hutchinson, and Brian Ward
Gender and generation : manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Peter J. Ling
Women in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee : ideology, organizational structure, and leadership / Belinda Robnett
The "gun-toting" Gloria Richardson : Black violence in Cambridge, Maryland / Jenny Walker
"It's a doggy-dogg world" : Black cultural politics, Gangsta Rap and the "post-soul man" / Eithne Quinn
Revisiting the 1960s in contemporary fiction : "where do we go from here?" / Sharon Monteith
"The struggle continues" : Black women in Congress in the 1990s / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson.