U.S. Women in Struggle

by Moses, Claire Goldberg; Hartmann, Heidi I.

• ISBN13: 9780252064623
• ISBN10: 0252064623
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This lively collection highlights the remarkable diversity of U. S. women's struggles from the early 1800s to the present. Bringing together articles originally published in the journal Feminist Studies, which from its inception has sought to link scholarship to activism, the volume reflects on the ways women have organized, the conditions that have discouraged or encouraged their organizing, and the significance of race, class, ethnicity, religion, age, and sexual orientation, as well as gender, for their struggles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Power of Women's Networks: A Case Study of Female Moral Reform in Antebellum America	p. 1
Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America	p. 21
The Radicalism of the Woman Suffrage Movement: Notes toward the Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Feminism	p. 42
Seeking Ecstasy on the Battlefield: Danger and Pleasure in Nineteenth-Century Feminist Sexual Thought	p. 52
Separatism as Strategy: Female Institution Building and American Feminism, 1870-1930	p. 71
Women in the 1920s' Ku Klux Klan Movement	p. 89
"Where Are the Organized Women Workers?"	p. 110
Race, Sex, and Class: Black Female Tobacco Workers in Durham, North Carolina, 1920-1940, and the Development of Female Consciousness	p. 134
Challenging "Woman's Place": Feminism, the Left, and Industrial Unionism in the 1930s	p. 145
Rethinking Troubled Relations between Women and Unions: Craft Unionism and Female Activism	p. 166
"We Are That Mythical Thing Called the Public": Militant Housewives during the Great Depression	p. 189
Ladies' Day at the Capitol: Women Strike for Peace versus HUAC	p. 214
Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community: Buffalo, New York, 1940-1960	p. 240
The Rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study	p. 259
Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-inclusive Sisterhood	p. 277
My Black Mothers and Sisters; or, On Beginning a Cultural Autobiography	p. 296
Abortion in the Courts: A Laywoman's Historical Guide	p. 311
Debating Difference: Feminism, Pregnancy, and the Workplace	p. 333
Something Old, Something New: Auxiliary Work in the 1983-1986 Copper Strike	p. 356
Women Workers and the Yale Strike	p. 373
Changing Goals and Changing Strategies: Varieties of Women's Political Activities	p. 396
Contributors	p. 415
Index	p. 421
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