Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.

In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation with a rich cultural archive that includes fiction by Terry McMillan and Sister Souljah, ...

A portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century introduces readers to the fiery woman who inspired generations of activists.

Shedding new light on the history of gender, marriage, and family life from the 1920s through the 1960s, this innovative book also opens new perspectives on the history of leisure and class affiliation, attitudes toward consumerism and ...

Building on this work and the study of space, social relations, gender, and power in the Old South, Stephanie Camp examines the everyday containment and movement of enslaved men and, especially, enslaved women.

This work reaches across the colour line to examine how race, gender, class and individual subjectivity shaped the lives of black and white women in the 19th- and 20th-century American South.

Margaret Rose Gladney has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for this volume.

Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges th

Common Sense and a Little Fire traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics.