Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott

Lucretia Coffin Mott

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Presents the correspondence of the Quaker activist Lucretia Coffin Mott that illustrates the length and breadth of her public life as a leading reform... Lees meer

Mother-Work Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930

Molly Ladd-Taylor

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Early in the twentieth century, maternal and child welfare evolved from a private family responsibility into a matter of national policy. Molly Ladd-T... Lees meer

Women's Activist Organizing in Us History

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• Women 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 actin... Lees meer

Women's Activist Organizing in Us History

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Women 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 actin... Lees meer

Feminist Coalitions

Stephanie Gilmore

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women's movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but ... Lees meer

Working Women of Collar City

Carole Turbin

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Why have some working women succeeded at organizing in spite of obstacles to labor activity? Under what circumstances were they able to form alliances... Lees meer

The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30

Jan Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by ... Lees meer

Anna Howard Shaw

Trisha Franzen

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• With this first scholarly biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), Trisha Franzen sheds new light on an important woman suffrage leader who has too ... Lees meer

Christian Sisterhood, Race Relations, and the Ywca, 1906-46

Nancy Robertson

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• As the major national biracial women's organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) provided a unique venue for women to respond to Am... Lees meer

Gendered Strife & Confusion

Laura F Edwards

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Exploring the gendered dimension of political conflicts, Laura Edwards links transformations in private and public life in the era following the Civil... Lees meer

Feminist Coalitions

Stephanie Gilmore

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women's movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but ... Lees meer

Habits of Compassion

Maureen Fitzgerald

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• The Irish-Catholic Sisters accomplished tremendously successful work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the Irish famine throu... Lees meer

Big Sister

Erin M Kempker

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• The mid-Seventies represented a watershed era for feminism. A historic National Women's Conference convened in Houston in 1977. The Equal Rights Amend... Lees meer

The Life of Madie Hall Xuma

Wanda A Hendricks

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Revered in South Africa as "An African American Mother of the Nation," Madie Beatrice Hall Xuma spent her extraordinary life immersed in global women'... Lees meer

Lost in the USA

Deborah Gray White

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Remembered as an era of peace and prosperity, turn-of-the-millennium America was also a time of mass protest. But the political demands of the marcher... Lees meer

Mining Cultures

Mary Murphy

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Butte, Montana, long deserved its reputation as a wide-open town. Mining Cultures shows how the fabled Montana city evolved from a male-dominated mini... Lees meer

Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women's Equality

Joanne E Passet

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Questioning the commonplace view of the late nineteenth century as a period of passionless women and so-called Victorian sexuality, this study examine... Lees meer

Reverend Addie Wyatt

Marcia Walker-McWilliams

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of ... Lees meer

Beauty Shop Politics

Tiffany M Gill

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Looking through the lens of black business history, Beauty Shop Politics shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic indep... Lees meer

Riding Jane Crow

Miriam Thaggert

• Paperback | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad... Lees meer

Leaders of Their Race

Sarah H Case

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Secondary level female education played a foundational role in reshaping women's identity in the New South. Sarah H. Case examines the transformative ... Lees meer

Beyond Respectability

Brittney C Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the ... Lees meer

Reinventing Marriage

Lori Kenschaft

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Drawing on more than a thousand letters written before and after their wedding, this book traces the changing relationship between Alice and George He... Lees meer

Lucretia Mott Speaks

Lucretia Coffin Mott

• Hardcover | Engels | Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
• Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women's rights--Lucretia Mott was one of the great reform... Lees meer