Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens.
The Westons were among the most well-known abolitionists in antebellum Massachusetts, and each of the Weston sisters played an integral role in the familys work.
This biography of Beatriz Allende (19421977)revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chiles socialist president, Salvador Allendeportrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change.
In 1966 in Rabun County, Georgia, a group of high school English students created theFoxfire magazine, a literary journal that celebrated Appalachian stories, peoples, and culture.
Carefully melding theory with close readings of texts, the contributors to Ambiguous Discourse explore the role of gender in the struggle for narrative control of specific works by British writers Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Anita Brookner, Angela Carter, Jeanette Winterson, and Mina Loy.
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.
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.
Decades before Miami became Havana USA, a wave of leftist, radical, working-class women and men from prerevolutionary Cuba crossed the Florida Straits, made Ybor City the global capital of the Cuban cigar industry, and established the foundation of latinidad in the Sunshine State.
After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities.
Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and citizens.
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.
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.
After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities.
The Unlively: Protesting Fossil Fuel Pollution with David Buckel examines air pollution and extinction by looking into how they might contribute, conceptually and politically, to a queer ecopolitics of death.
This book explores the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity, and class in the fragile borderlands of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh against the backdrop of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.
More than a generation after the rise of womens history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion.
More than a generation after the rise of womens history alongside the feminist movement, it is still difficult, observes Catherine Brekus, to locate women in histories of American religion.
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.
Love Dharma offers compassionate guidance and advice, looking at contemporary relationship dilemmas from a Buddhist perspective as expressed in traditional stories of enlightened Buddhist women who lived and loved during the Buddha's lifetime.
Love Dharma offers compassionate guidance and advice, looking at contemporary relationship dilemmas from a Buddhist perspective as expressed in traditional stories of enlightened Buddhist women who lived and loved during the Buddha's lifetime.
When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list.
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Celebrity offers the first comprehensive global study of how gender shapes celebrity culture across diverse contexts and media landscapes.
When Mahnaz Afkhami picked up the phone in a New York hotel room early one morning in November 1978, she learned she could never go home again: she had been declared an apostate and enemy of the Iranian Revolution and was now on its death list.
After working alongside iconic figures like Diana Ross, Prince, and Maya Angelou and as VIBEs founding fashion director, Michaela angela Davis provides both a celebration of Black medias vibrant history and a critical examination of its challenges and identity politics.
In tracing the rise of the modern idea of the American new woman, Lynn Dumenil examines World War Is surprising impact on women and, in turn, womens impact on the war.
