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| Genre/Form: | Cross-cultural studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Vicki Ruíz; Ellen Carol DuBois |
| ISBN: | 9780415958400 0415958407 9780415958417 0415958415 |
| OCLC Number: | 148725347 |
| Description: | xviii, 638 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Race and the politics of identity in U.S. feminism / Estelle B. Freedman -- 2. Bodies in motion : lesbian and transsexual histories / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- 3. Teaching the differences among women from a historical perspective : rethinking race and gender as social categories / Tessie Liu -- 4. "This evil extends especially to the feminine sex" : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, 1700-1846/ James F. Brooks -- 5. "Deluders and seducers of each other" : gender and the changing nature of resistance / Jennifer L. Morgan -- 6. The pleasures of resistance : enslaved women and body politics in the plantation south, 1830-1861 / Stephanie M.H. Camp -- 7. Race, culture and justice in Mexican Los Angeles / Miroslava Chávez-García -- 8. To earn her daily bread : housework and antebellum working-class subsistence / Jeanne Boydston -- 9. The feminized civil war : gender, Northern popular literature, and the memory of war, 1861-1900 / Alice Fahs -- 10. To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern Black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown. 11. "To dark to be angels" : the class system among the Cherokees at the female seminary / Devon A. Mihesuah -- 12. The practice of everyday colonialism : indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Paige Raibmon -- 13. Black and white visions of welfare : women's welfare activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon -- 14. Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women / Donna R. Gabaccia, Vicki L. Ruiz -- 15. The social awakening of Chinese American women as reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 / Judy Yung -- 16. Working women, class relations, and suffrage militance : Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York woman's suffrage movement, 1894-1909 / Ellen Carol Dubois -- 17. In politics to stay : black women leaders and party politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- 18. Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth-century America / Peggy Pascoe -- 19. Sexual geography and gender economy : the furnished-room districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 / Joanne Meyerowitz -- 20. Making faces : the cosmetics industry and the cultural construction of gender, 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss. 21. "Star struck" : acculturation, adolescence, and Mexican American women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz -- 22. Japanese American women and the creation of urban Nisei culture in the 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- 23. In search of unconventional women : histories of Puerto Rican women in religious vocations before mid-century / Virginia Sánchez Korrol -- 24. "We are that mythical thing called the public" : militant housewives during the Great Depression / Annelise Orleck -- 25. Raiz Fuerte : oral history and Mexicana farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber -- 26. From servitude to service work : historical continuities in the racial division of paid reproductive labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- 27. Open secrets : memory, imagination, and the refashioning of Southern identity / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- 28. Was mom Chung a "sister lesbian"? : Asian American gender experimentation / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- 29. Telling performances : jazz history remembered and remade by the women in the band / Sherrie Tucker -- 30. Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique : labor union radicalism and feminism in Cold War America / Daniel Horowitz. 31. Non mothers as bad mothers : infertility and the "maternal instinct" / Elaine Tyler May -- 32. Polishing brown diamonds : African American women, popular magazines, and the advent of modeling in early Postwar America / Laila Haidarali -- 33. "More than a lady" : Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and black women's leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griggs Fleming -- 34. Towards trans-Pacific social justice : women and protest in Filipino American history / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- 35. Migrant melancholia : emergent discourses of Mexican migrant traffic in transnational space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho -- 36. Silencing religiosity : secularity and Arab American feminisms / Lara Deeb -- Selected bibliographies -- African American women / compiled by Zakiya R. Adair -- Asian and Pacific Islander American women / compiled by Shirley Jennifer Lim -- Latinas / compiled by Mary Ann Villarreal -- Native American women / compiled by Annette L. Reed. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Vicki L. Ruiz with Ellen Carol Dubois. |
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"This remarkable collection of essays challenges traditional conceptions of womanhood. Ruiz has selected highly readable interpretations of women's historical experiences as they emerge from a wide array of perspectives, including women's political standpoints, their ethnic and racial situations, sexual preferences, and class positions. Taken together the essays signal a new direction in the history of women." -- Alice Kessler-Harris, author of "Gendering Labor History" "With over a dozen new essays, the fourth edition of "Unequal Sisters" is perhaps the strongest yet in terms of depth, breadth, and diversity of analysis. It is an exciting, vital mix of now-classic statements and cutting-edge work that brilliantly illuminates the complexities of ethnicity, race, class, region, gender, and sexuality. The anthology is undoubtedly among the very best in the field." -- Michele Mitchell, author of "Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny after Reconstruction" "This remarkable collection showcases the multiple ways in which women of color make history for themselves and others within and beyond U.S. borders. New studies combined with classic feminist writings make it an indispensable tool for advancing an inclusive women's history." -- Shirley Hune, co-author of "Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology" "Grounded in the exploration of gender, race, class, and generational differences, this new edition of "Unequal Sisters" proves, yet again, that the field of Women's History continues to be at the forefront of our collective desire to understand the ways that women's complex pasts remain deeply relevant for all those who struggle for equality and a just society today. Without a doubt, this book is essential reading for all!" -- Suzanne Oboler, author of "Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging" Read more...
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