Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-613) and index.
Contents:
To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern Black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Bodies in motion : lesbian and transsexual histories / Nan Alamilla Boyd -- Teaching the differences among women from a historical perspective : rethinking race and gender as social categories / Tessie Liu -- "This evil extends especially to the feminine sex" : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, 1700-1846 / James F. Brooks -- "Deluders and seducers of each other" : gender and the changing nature of resistance / Jennifer L. Morgan -- Pleasures of resistance : enslaved women and body politics in the plantation South, 1830-1861 / Stephanie M.H. Camp -- Race, culture and justice in Mexican Los Angeles / Miroslava Chávez García -- To earn her daily bread : housework and antebellum working class subsistence / Jeanne Boydston -- Feminized civil war : gender, Northern popular literature, and the memory of war, 1861-1900 / Alice Fahs -- To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern Black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown -- Making faces : the cosmetics industry and the cultural construction of gender, 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss -- Practice of everyday colonialism : indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Paige Raibmon -- Black and white visions of welfare : women's welfare activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon -- Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women / Donna R. Gabaccia, Vicki L. Ruiz -- Social awakening of Chinese American women as reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 / Judy Yung -- Working women, class relations, and suffrage militance : Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York woman's suffrage movement, 1894-1909 / Ellen Carol Dubois -- In politics to stay : black women leaders and party politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham -- Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth century America / Peggy Pascoe -- Sexual geography and gender economy : the furnished room districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 / Joanne Meyerowitz -- Making faces : the cosmetics industry and the cultural construction of gender, 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss -- Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique : labor union radicalism and feminism in Cold War America / Daniel Horowitz -- Japanese American women and the creation of urban Nisei culture in the 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- In search of unconventional women : histories of Puerto Rican women in religious vocations before mid - century / Virginia Sánchez Korrol -- "We are that mythical thing called the public" : militant housewives during the Great Depression / Annelise Orleck -- Raiz Fuerte : oral history and Mexicana farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber -- From servitude to service work : historical continuities in the racial division of paid reproductive labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Open secrets : memory, imagination, and the refashioning of Southern identity / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Was mom Chung a "sister lesbian"? : Asian American gender experimentation / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- Telling performances : jazz history remembered and remade by the women in the band / Sherrie Tucker -- Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique : labor union radicalism and feminism in Cold War America / Daniel Horowitz -- Native American women / compiled by Annette L. Reed. Polishing brown diamonds : African American women, popular magazines, and the advent of modeling in early postwar America / Laila Haidarali -- "More than a lady" : Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and black women's leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griggs Fleming -- Towards trans Pacific social justice : women and protest in Filipino American history / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Migrant melancholia : emergent discourses of Mexican migrant traffic in transnational space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho -- 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.
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