Author : Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9781138794887
Introduction -- Suffragists & suffragettes -- Revolutionary nationalists -- Workers -- The grandmothers -- Marching on
Author : Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 32,60 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0429850484
Remembering Women’s Activism examines the intersections between gender politics and acts of remembrance by tracing the cultural memories of women who are known for their actions. Memories are constantly being reinterpreted and are profoundly shaped by gender. This book explores the gendered dimensions of history and memory through nation-based and transnational case studies from the Asia-Pacific region and Anglophone world. Chapters consider how different forms of women’s activism have been remembered: the efforts of suffragists in Britain, the USA and Australia to document their own histories and preserve their memory; Constance Markievicz and Qiu Jin, two early twentieth-century political activists in Ireland and China respectively; the struggles of women workers; and the movement for redress of those who have suffered militarized sexual abuse. The book concludes by reflecting on the mobilization of memories of activism in the present. Transnational in scope and with reference to both state-centred and organic acts of remembering, including memorial practices, physical sites of memory, popular culture and social media, Remembering Women’s Activism is an ideal volume for all students of gender and history, the history of feminism, and the relationship between memory and history.
Author : Holly J. McCammon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190204214
Over the course of thirty-seven chapters, including an editorial introduction, this handbook provides a comprehensive examination of scholarly research and knowledge on a variety of aspects of women's collective activism in the United States, tracing both continuities and critical changes over time. Women have played pivotal and far-reaching roles in bringing about significant societal change, and women activists come from an array of different demographics, backgrounds and perspectives, including those that are radical, liberal, and conservative. The chapters in the handbook consider women's activism in the interest of women themselves as well as actions done on behalf of other social groups. The volume is organized into five sections. The first looks at U.S. Women's Social Activism over time, from the women's suffrage movement to the ERA, radical feminism, third-wave feminism, intersectional feminism and global feminism. Part two looks at issues that mobilize women, including workplace discrimination, reproductive rights, health, gender identity and sexuality, violence against women, welfare and employment, globalization, immigration and anti-feminist and pro-life causes. Part three looks at strategies, including movement emergence and resource mobilization, consciousness raising, and traditional and social media. Part four explores targets and tactics, including legislative forums, electoral politics, legal activism, the marketplace, the military, and religious and educational institutions. Finally, part five looks at women's participation within other movements, including the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, labor unions, LGBTQ movement, Latino activism, conservative groups, and the white supremacist movement.
Author : Annelise Orleck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 113508906X
In this enthralling narrative, Annelise Orleck chronicles the history of the American women's movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Starting with an incisive introduction that calls for a reconceptualization of American feminist history to encompass multiple streams of women's activism, she weaves the personal with the political, vividly evoking the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolutions. In short, thematic chapters, Orleck enables readers to understand the impact of women's activism, and highlights how feminism has flourished through much of the past century within social movements that have too often been treated as completely separate. Showing that women’s activism has taken many forms, has intersected with issues of class and race, and has continued during periods of backlash, Rethinking American Women’s Activism is a perfect introduction to the subject for anyone interested in women’s history and social movements.
Author : Nancy A. Naples
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415931458
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 019065886X
This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism's 'second wave' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation. Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a feminist life from 1950s girlhoods to late life activism today. Peppered with personal stories, the book casts new light on feminist critiques of society and on the lives of prominent and grassroots activists. Margaretta Jolly uses oral history as creative method, making significant use of Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project to animate still-unresolved controversies of race, class, sexuality, disability, and feminist identity. Women activists vividly recall a divisive education system, the unevenness of sexual liberation and the challenges of Thatcherism, Northern Ireland's Troubles and the policing of minority ethnic communities. They illuminate key campaigns in these wider contexts, and talk of the organizational and collaborative skills they struggled to acquire as they moved into local government, NGOs and even the business sector. Jolly provides fresh insight into iconic actions including the Miss World Protest, the fight to protect abortion rights, and the peace protest at Greenham Common. Her accounts of workplace struggles, from Ford and Grunwick to Women Against Pit Closures and Women and Manual Trades, show how socialist ideals permeated feminism. She explores men's violence and today's demands for trans-liberation as areas of continuing feminist concern. Jolly offers a refreshingly jargon-free exploration of key debates and theoretical trends, alongside an appreciation of the joyfully personal aspects of feminism, from families, homes, shopping and music to relationships, health, aging, death and faith. She concludes by urging readers to enter the archives of feminist memory to help map their own political futures. Her work will appeal to general readers, scholars and practitioners alike.
Author : Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1988-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801495090
Nancy A. Hewitt challenges the popular belief that the lives of antebellum women focused on their role in the private sphere of the family.
Author : Christine L. Ridarsky
Publisher : Gender and Race in American Hi
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580464253
Explores the diversity of thought and action in women's involvement in 19th-century reform movements.
Author : Dawn Durante
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,82 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780252044342
"This volume commemorates the 35th anniversary of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series in 2022. The anthology brings together chapters and excerpts from previously published books in the series that reflect the breadth of the intellectual commitments of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series--including material from one of the first books in the series, many of its most popular chapters and award-winning books, and its most recent bestseller. Curated around the theme of organizing over two hundred years, each piece in the anthology shows a different dimension of nineteenth and twentieth century labor, activist, legal, political, or community organizing at work within the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States. With an original introduction by Deborah Gray White, this compilation shows the historical and strategic breadth of the ways that women and feminists organize, reform, and resist against systems of racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality"--
Author : Teresa Bergman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781629583808
The Commemoration of Womenin the United States examines the public memorialization of women in the US over the past century, with a particular focus on the late twentieth century and early twenty first. The analysis centers on six case examples of memorialization, and explores broad themes of cultural representation. Bergman argues that the construction, or relocation, of a series of prominent national memorials together form a significant moment of change in the ways in which women are commemorated in the US. The historic and present-day challenges facing such commemoration are examined, with reference to broader political debates. The case examples explored are the Women in the Military Service for America Memorial; the Women's Rights National Historic Park; the Vietnam Veterans Women's Memorial; the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park; the Eleanor Roosevelt Statue in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial; and the Portrait Monument of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Providing insightful and grounded analysis of the history and practice of the commemoration of women in the US, this book makes useful reading for a range of scholars and students in subjects including heritage studies, communication studies, and history. the Portrait Monument of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Providing insightful and grounded analysis of the history and practice of the commemoration of women in the US, this book makes useful reading for a range of scholars and students in subjects including heritage studies, communication studies, and history.
