Bøger i Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History serien

Presents the story of how African American women used their wartime contributions on the home front to push for increased rights to equal employment, welfare benefits, worker equity, and desegregation of volunteer associations, during WWII.

Explores the complicated history of the suffrage movement in New York State by delving into the stories of women who opposed the expansion of voting rights to women.

The engaging lives that single women led in spite of (or perhaps because of) their "spinsterhood"

Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. This title offers an account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. It argues that this convergence foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times.

A biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the most important civil rights activists of the 20th century. It documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action and the personal costs of her struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South.

Shows how black beauticians in the Jim Crow era parlayed their economic independence and access to a public community space into platforms for activism. This book argues that the beauty industry played a crucial role in the creation of the modern black female identity.

Examines the folklore of Mary Ellen Pleasant's real and imagined powers. Addressing the lack of a historical record of black women's lives, this book argues that the silences and mysteries of Pleasant's past, whether never recorded or intentionally omitted, reveal as much about her life as what has been documented.

Originally published in hardcover in 2012 by University of Illinois Press.

Black and white women's struggles over race relations in the YWCA and beyond

Tells about nineteenth-century women and men who believed in and fought for women's social and economic equality and the right to reproductive choice.

Examining how labor and economy shaped family life for both women and men among the enslaved

For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. This title shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America.

How racial and class differences influenced the modern women's movement

Suitable for not only historians and sociologists but also to those working with or studying voluntary organizations.

This pathbreaking anthology is an illuminating look at the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women

Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality