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U.S. Women´s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
Leslie Brown (Ed.)
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Description for U.S. Women´s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
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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 powerful—women’s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes ... Read more
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 powerful—women’s historians have begun to offer more varied and nuanced narratives. The ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current research in the field. Including work from both emerging and established scholars, this collection employs innovative approaches to study both the causes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813575834
SKU
V9780813575834
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About Leslie Brown (Ed.)
LESLIE BROWN was a professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South, the editor of Voices of Freedom II: A Documentary History, from Emancipation to the Present, and (with Anne Valk) coeditor of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and ... Read more
Reviews for U.S. Women´s History: Untangling the Threads of Sisterhood
“This indispensable volume collects the most current scholarship on gender and U.S. history. The essays are a testament to the vibrancy of the field of women's history and illustrate the range of methodological and theoretical innovations that continue to drive the field."
Jennifer L. Morgan
author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery
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Jennifer L. Morgan
author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in New World Slavery
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