The Fight for Freedom for Women
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thavolia Glymph |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : |
Historians of the Civil War often speak of 'wars within a war' - the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War - North and South, white and black, slave and free - showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas. Glymph focuses on the ideas and ideologies that drove women's actions, allegiances, and politics.
Author | : Rose Tremain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Doris Stevens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Suffrage |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leslie A. Schwalm |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780252066306 |
African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, both in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery. From there, she chronicles their efforts as freedwomen to recover from the impact of the war while redefining their lives and labor. Freedwomen asserted their own ideas of what freedom meant and insisted on important changes in the work they performed both for white employers and in their own homes. As Schwalm shows, these women rejected the most unpleasant or demeaning tasks, guarded the prerogatives they gained under the South's slave economy, and defended their hard-won freedoms against unwanted intervention by Northern whites and the efforts of former owners to restore slavery's social and economic relations during Reconstruction. A bold challenge to entrenched notions, A Hard Fight for We places African American women at the center of the South's transition from a slave society.
Author | : Dayo F. Gore |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0814783147 |
The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Huey Newton. With few exceptions, black women have been perceived as supporting actresses; as behind-the-scenes or peripheral activists, or rank and file party members. But what about Vicki Garvin, a Brooklyn-born activist who became a leader of the National Negro Labor Council and guide to Malcolm X on his travels through Africa? What about Shirley Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman? From Rosa Parks and Esther Cooper Jackson, to Shirley Graham DuBois and Assata Shakur, a host of women demonstrated a lifelong commitment to radical change, embracing multiple roles to sustain the movement, founding numerous groups and mentoring younger activists. Helping to create the groundwork and continuity for the movement by operating as local organizers, international mobilizers, and charismatic leaders, the stories of the women profiled in Want to Start a Revolution? help shatter the pervasive and imbalanced image of women on the sidelines of the black freedom struggle. Contributors: Margo Natalie Crawford, Prudence Cumberbatch, Johanna Fernández, Diane C. Fujino, Dayo F. Gore, Joshua Guild, Gerald Horne, Ericka Huggins, Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, Joy James, Erik McDuffie, Premilla Nadasen, Sherie M. Randolph, James Smethurst, Margaret Stevens, and Jeanne Theoharis.
Author | : Karen Cook Bell |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2021-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108831540 |
A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.
Author | : Cath Senker |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1484608666 |
"In the 1960s, a woman s place was seen as being in the home. She even found it hard to make a big purchase if a man wasn t with her. African-American women faced racism daily and were given low-paid, exhausting jobs. It was time for women to stand up for equal rights and equal pay. These are the stories of four trailblazers who achieved amazing things in difficult circumstances: Betty Freidan protested at the Miss America pageant against judging women on appearance. Ella Baker helped organize Freedom Schools, where black history was taught for the first time. Barbara Castle was one of the few women members of Parliament and fought for equal pay. Mary Quant showed women they could dress for themselves and not men. Many of the rights women have today are down to their actions. They helped change society's image of women forever."--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Marta Breen |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1499810016 |
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Author | : Nadine Strossen |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2024-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1479830798 |
Named a Notable Book by The New York Times Book Review in 1995, Defending Pornography examines a key question that has divided feminists for decades: is censoring pornography good or bad for women? Nadine Strossen makes a powerful case that increasing government power to censor sexual expression, beyond the limits that the First Amendment sensibly permits (for example, outlawing child pornography) would do more harm than good for women and others who have traditionally been marginalized due to sex or gender, She explains how the very anti-porn laws pushed by some feminists have led to the censorship of LGBTQ+ and feminist works, and she examines the startling connections between anti-porn feminists and right-wing fundamentalists. In an illuminating new Preface, Strossen lays out the multiple current assaults on sexual expression, which continue to come from across the ideological spectrum. She shows that freedom for such expression remains an essential prerequisite for the equality, safety, and dignity of women and sexual/gender minorities.