| Edition |
4th ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 638 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-613) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Race and the politics of identity in U.S. feminism / Estelle B. Freedman -- 2. Bodies in motion : lesbian and transsexual histories / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- 3. Teaching the differences among women from a historical perspective : rethinking race and gender as social categories / Tessie Liu -- 4. "This evil extends especially to the feminine sex" : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, 1700-1846/ James F. Brooks -- 5. "Deluders and seducers of each other" : gender and the changing nature of resistance / Jennifer L. Morgan -- 6. The pleasures of resistance : enslaved women and body politics in the plantation south, 1830-1861 / Stephanie M.H. Camp -- 7. Race, culture and justice in Mexican Los Angeles / Miroslava Chávez-García -- 8. To earn her daily bread : housework and antebellum working-class subsistence / Jeanne Boydston -- 9. The feminized civil war : gender, Northern popular literature, and the memory of war, 1861-1900 / Alice Fahs -- 10. To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern Black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown. |
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11. "To dark to be angels" : the class system among the Cherokees at the female seminary / Devon A. Mihesuah -- 12. The practice of everyday colonialism : indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Paige Raibmon -- 13. Black and white visions of welfare : women's welfare activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon -- 14. Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women / Donna R. Gabaccia, Vicki L. Ruiz -- 15. The social awakening of Chinese American women as reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 / Judy Yung -- 16. Working women, class relations, and suffrage militance : Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York woman's suffrage movement, 1894-1909 / Ellen Carol Dubois -- 17. In politics to stay : black women leaders and party politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- 18. Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth-century America / Peggy Pascoe -- 19. Sexual geography and gender economy : the furnished-room districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 / Joanne Meyerowitz -- 20. Making faces : the cosmetics industry and the cultural construction of gender, 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss. |
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21. "Star struck" : acculturation, adolescence, and Mexican American women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- 22. Japanese American women and the creation of urban Nisei culture in the 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- 23. In search of unconventional women : histories of Puerto Rican women in religious vocations before mid-century / Virginia Sánchez Korrol -- 24. "We are that mythical thing called the public" : militant housewives during the Great Depression / Annelise Orleck -- 25. Raiz Fuerte : oral history and Mexicana farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber -- 26. From servitude to service work : historical continuities in the racial division of paid reproductive labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- 27. Open secrets : memory, imagination, and the refashioning of Southern identity / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- 28. Was mom Chung a "sister lesbian"? : Asian American gender experimentation / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- 29. Telling performances : jazz history remembered and remade by the women in the band / Sherrie Tucker -- 30. Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique : labor union radicalism and feminism in Cold War America / Daniel Horowitz. |
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31. Non mothers as bad mothers : infertility and the "maternal instinct" / Elaine Tyler May -- 32. Polishing brown diamonds : African American women, popular magazines, and the advent of modeling in early Postwar America / Laila Haidarali -- 33. "More than a lady" : Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and black women's leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griggs Fleming -- 34. Towards trans-Pacific social justice : women and protest in Filipino American history / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- 35. Migrant melancholia : emergent discourses of Mexican migrant traffic in transnational space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho -- 36. Silencing religiosity : secularity and Arab American feminisms / Lara Deeb -- Selected bibliographies -- African American women / compiled by Zakiya R. Adair -- Asian and Pacific Islander American women / compiled by Shirley Jennifer Lim -- Latinas / compiled by Mary Ann Villarreal -- Native American women / compiled by Annette L. Reed. |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Sex role -- United States -- History -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Minority women -- United States -- History.
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African American women -- History.
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Interkulturalität.
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Nationale Minderheit.
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Frau.
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Weibliche Schwarze.
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African American women. (OCoLC)fst00799438
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Minority women. (OCoLC)fst01023418
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Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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United States.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Ruíz, Vicki.
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DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
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| ISBN |
9780415958400 (harcover: alkaline paper) |
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0415958407 (harcover: alkaline paper) |
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9780415958417 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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0415958415 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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