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

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Durante, Dawn (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2022]
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
Subjects:
Women > Political activity > United States > History > Sources.
Women in the labor movement > United States > History > Scources.
Feminism > United States > History > Sources.
Femmes > Activité politique > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
Féminisme > États-Unis > Histoire > Sources.
HISTORY / General
Feminism.
Women in the labor movement.
Women > Political activity.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.