Gender studies, gender groups

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal WinnerThis is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation and family diversity easy to explain to children.

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.

On November 3, 1870, on a San Francisco ferry, Laura Fair shot a bullet into the heart of her married lover, A.

As a leading historian of women, Linda K.

As the enduring last frontier, Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in the shift from western continental expansion to global empire.

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and dont know, about the person they call Mother.

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans.

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.

This aint no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs.

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.

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.

Examining infanticide cases in the United States from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth centuries, Proving Pregnancy documents how womenBlack and white, enslaved and freegradually lost control over reproduction to male medical and legal professionals.

Shabana Mirs powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.

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.

Liquor was essential to military culture as well as healthcare regimens in both the Union and Confederate armies.

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.

In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (18951973).

Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood.

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O.

The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity.

In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic boundaries.

Dispelling the common notion that American women became activists in the fight against female cancer only after the 1970s, Kirsten E.

In 1942 Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nations leading historians.

In an in-depth community study of women in the civil rights movement, Christina Greene examines how several generations of black and white women, low-income as well as more affluent, shaped the struggle for black freedom in Durham, North Carolina.

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.

After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis.

Women in public office are often assumed to make a difference for women, as women in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts.

The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Watermans Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, rivermen, sailors, ferrymen, and other laborers who, from the colonial era through Reconstruction, plied the vast inland waters of North Carolina from the Outer Banks to the upper reaches of tidewater rivers.

On a summer day in 1846 two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for womans rights in the United States six women in rural upstate New York sat down to write a petition to their states constitutional convention, demanding equal, and civil and political rights with men.

In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party.

Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century.

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia E.

After the Civil War, many Americans did not identify strongly with the concept of a united nation.

Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers.

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic.

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.

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing.

Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing.

This ambitious transnational history considers Haitian womens political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti (191534).

Award-winning historian Tamika Y.

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Recognizing the railroads importance as both symbol and experience in Victorian America, Amy G.

The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle.

Offering an interpretation of the Revolutionary period that places women at the center, Joan R.

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (18151884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman.

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.

One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Estelle B.

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated.

In August 2003, North Carolina became the first U.

After the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, hundreds of thousands of southern women went to the polls for the first time.