Contributor
Brown, Leslie, 1954- editor.
Imprint:New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Descriptionxxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Preface: A feminist way of being : celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt / Paula J. Giddings -- Introduction / Leslie Brown -- Part 1. Searching for sisterhood. Cleaning race : Irish immigrant and Southern Black domestic workers in the Northeast United States, 1865-1930 / Danielle Phillips ; "By any means necessary" : The National Council of Negro Women's flexible loyalties in the Black Power era / Rebecca Tuuri ; "This is like family" : activist-survivor histories and motherwork / Ariella Rotramel -- Part 2. Challenging established narratives. The maid and Mr. Charlie : Rosa Parks and the struggle for Black women's bodily integrity / Danielle L. McGuire ; Cold War history as women's history / Jacqueline Castleine ; "I'm gonna get you" : Black womanhood and Jim Crow justice in the post-civil rights South / Christina Greene -- Part 3. Rethinking feminism. Gender expression in antebellum America : accessing the priveleges and freedoms of white men / Jen Manion ; When a "sister" is a mother : maternal thinking and feminist action, 1967-1980 / Andrea Estepa ; Contested geography : the campaign against pornography and the battle for urban space in Minneapolis / Kirsten Delegard ; Remembering together : take back the night and the public memory of feminism / Anne Valk.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-212) and index.