Nancy A Hewitt: 2 books
Radical Friend
Amy Kirby Post and Her Activist Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (1802@–89) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists. A conductor on the Underground Railroad, co-organizer of the 1848 Rochester Woman's Rights...
U.S. Women's History
Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
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...