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Muslim American Women on Campus
Undergraduate Social Life and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on...
Making Marriage Work
A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin...
Mobilizing New York
AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post–World...
Liberated Threads
Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against police...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America's communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices...
New Women of the Old Faith
Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
American Catholic women rarely surface as protagonists in histories of the United States. Offering a new perspective, Kathleen Sprows Cummings places Catholic women at the forefront of two defining developments of the Progressive Era: the emergence of the "New Woman" and Catholics' struggle to define...
Spirited Lives
How Nuns Shaped Catholic Culture and American Life, 1836-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
Made doubly marginal by their gender and by their religion, American nuns have rarely been granted serious scholarly attention. Instead, their lives and achievements have been obscured by myths or distorted by stereotypes. Placing nuns into the mainstream of American religious and women's history...
Gendered Compromises
Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. While other scholars have focused on the economic realignments and novel political pacts that...
A Nation for All
Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-Century Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
After thirty years of anticolonial struggle against Spain and four years of military occupation by the United States, Cuba formally became an independent republic in 1902. The nationalist coalition that fought for Cuba's freedom, a movement in which blacks and mulattoes were well represented, had...
Jane Grey Swisshelm
An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited...
The Virgin Vote
How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Personal, and Voting Popular in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented peaks--young people led the way, hollering, fighting, and flirting at massive midnight rallies. Parents trained their...
Unruly Bodies
Life Writing by Women with Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
The first critical study of personal narrative by women with disabilities, Unruly Bodies examines how contemporary writers use life writing to challenge cultural stereotypes about disability, gender, embodiment, and identity.
Combining the analyses of disability and feminist theories, Susannah...
The Invention of Free Labor
The Employment Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Examining the emergence of the modern conception of free labor--labor that could not be legally compelled, even though voluntarily agreed upon--Steinfeld explains how English law dominated the early American colonies, making violation of al labor agreements punishable by imprisonment. By the eighteenth...
Journal of the Civil War Era
Winter 2013 Issue -- PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150: A SPECIAL ISSUE
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Volume 3, Number 4
December 2013
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SPECIAL ISSUE: PROCLAIMING EMANCIPATION AT 150
Articles
Introduction
Martha S. Jones, Guest Editor
History and Commemoration: The Emancipation Proclamation at 150
James Oakes
Reluctant...