A landmark work of womens history originally published in 1967, Gerda Lerners best-selling biography of Sarah and Angelina Grimk explores the lives and ideas of the only southern women to become antislavery agents in the North and pioneers for womens rights.
Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman.
This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time.
In 1996, Democratic president Bill Clinton and the Republican-controlled Congress ended welfare as we know it and trumpeted workfare as a dramatic break from the past.
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as doers of the word.
Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute deadbeat dads, Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make runaway husbands support their families.
The intense urbanization and industrialization of Americas largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles.
'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKERThis inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender, non-binary and intersex figures throughout history.
Cristina's son was about to embark on gender-affirming care that would likely cause infertility, when she realised the need to support both her child and the adult he would become, and give him the right to have children of his own.
Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing womens labor at the center of the antebellum slave trade, focusing particularly on slave traders' ability to profit from enslaved womens domestic, reproductive, and sexual labor.
In a century almost continually at odds with the proper place of females, Catherine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Isabella Beecher Hooker shared a commitment to womens power.
The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras.
There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as natural as during wartime: men go off to the war front, while women stay behind on the home front.
In this first comprehensive study of womens property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on womens lives.
This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (18971966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.
The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state.
In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroits Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration of blacks who left the South seeking improved economic and political conditions in the urban North.
This aint no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs.
This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms technocratic feminism traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years.
In Conceiving Freedom, Camillia Cowling shows how gender shaped urban routes to freedom for the enslaved during the process of gradual emancipation in Cuba and Brazil, which occurred only after the rest of Latin America had abolished slavery and even after the American Civil War.
