U.S. Women's History : Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: A Feminist Way of Being— Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt / Giddings, Paula J. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Brown, Leslie -- PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR SISTERHOOD -- 1. Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the Northeast...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface: A Feminist Way of Being— Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt / Giddings, Paula J. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Brown, Leslie -- PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR SISTERHOOD -- 1. Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the Northeast United States, 1865–1930 / Phillips, Danielle -- 2. “By Any Means Necessary”: The National Council of Negro Women’s Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power Era / Tuuri, Rebecca -- 3. “This Is Like Family”: Activist-Survivor Histories and Motherwork / Rotramel, Ariella -- PART TWO: CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED NARRATIVES -- 4. The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women’s Bodily Integrity / McGuire, Danielle L. -- 5. Cold War History as Women’s History / Castledine, Jacqueline -- 6. “I’m Gonna Get You”: Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the Post–Civil Rights South / Greene, Christina -- PART THREE. RETHINKING FEMINISM -- 7. Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White Men / Manion, Jen -- 8. When a “Sister” Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist Action, 1967–1980 / Estepa, Andrea -- 9. Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the Battle for Urban Space in Minneapolis / Delegard, Kirsten -- 10. Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of Feminism / Valk -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- index Ausführliche Beschreibung