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  • Radical Sisters

    Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C.

    by Anne M. Valk ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Radical Sisters offers a fresh exploration of the ways that 1960s political movements shaped local, grassroots feminism in Washington, D.C. Rejecting notions of a universal sisterhood, Anne M. Valk argues that activists periodically worked to bridge differences for the sake of alleviating women's plight, even while maintaining distinct political bases. While most historiography on the subject ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Women's Activist Organizing in US History

    A University of Illinois Press Anthology

    by Dawn Durante, Deborah Gray White, Melinda Chateauvert, Tiffany Gill, Nancy A Hewitt, Treva B. Lindsey, Anne Firor Scott, Charissa J. Threat, Anne M. Valk, Lara Vapnek0, Daina Ramey Berry1 ...
    Series series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
    Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women's acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Companion to American Women's History

    Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt, Anne M. Valk ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
    The most important collection of essays on American Women's HistoryThis collection incorporates the most influential and groundbreaking scholarship in the area of American women's history, featuring twenty-three original essays on critical themes and topics. It assesses the past thirty years of scholarship, capturing the ways that women's historians confront issues of race, class, gender, and ... Read more

    $176.00 USD

  • U.S. Women's History

    Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood

    by Jacqueline Castledine, Anne Valk, Nancy A. Hewitt, Danielle Phillips, Rebecca Tuuri, Ariella Rotramel, Danielle L. McGuire0, Christina Greene1, Jen Manion2, Andrea Estepa3, Kirsten Delegard4 ...
    In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed “Sisterhood is powerful,” and women’s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist scholars have started taking a more intersectional approach—acknowledging that no woman is simply defined by her gender and that affiliations like race, class, and sexual identity are often equally ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Freedom Is an Endless Meeting

    Democracy in American Social Movements

    by Francesca Polletta ...
    This "excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century" challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory democracy ( Times Literary Supplement).Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with ... Read more

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  • Feminism Unfinished

    A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

    by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry ...
    Reframing feminism for the twenty-first century, this bold and essential history stands up against "bland corporate manifestos" (Sarah Leonard).Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women’s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Shadow University

    The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

    by Alan Charles Kors, Harvey Silverglate ...
    Universities once believed themselves to be sacred enclaves, where students and professors could debate the issues of the day and arrive at a better understanding of the human condition. Today, sadly, this ideal of the university is being quietly betrayed from within. Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Tidal Wave

    How Women Changed America at Century's End

    by Sara Evans ...
    Forty years ago few women worked, married women could not borrow money in their own names, schools imposed strict quotas on female applicants, and sexual harassment did not exist as a legal concept. Yet despite the enormous changes for women in America since 1960, and despite a blizzard of books that continue to argue about women's "proper place," there has not been a serious, definitive history ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Personal Politics

    The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left

    by Sara Evans ...
    The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Queer Career

    Sexuality and Work in Modern America

    by Margot Canaday ...
    A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

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  • The World Split Open

    How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

    by Ruth Rosen ...
    In this enthralling narrative-the first of its kind-historian and journalist Ruth Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present. Interweaving the personal with the political, she vividly evokes the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolution. Rosen's fresh look at the recent past reveals ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Politics of Parenthood

    Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother

    by Mary Frances Berry ...
    A distinguished scholar presents a landmark historical perspective on parenthood in America. This trailblazing book suggests that behind the rhetoric of maternal responsibility are issues of power, resources, and control. "Berry's book could be a significant impetus for corporate executives and political leaders, conservatives and liberals, and mothers and fathers to support parental involvement ... Read more

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