Peace as a Woman's Issue

Peace as a Woman's Issue

Author: Harriet Hyman Alonso

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1993-03-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780815625650

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A history of the ideologies and personalities of the feminist peace movement in the US. This study explores: connections between militarism and violence against women; women as the mothers of society; women as naturally responsible citizens; and the desire to be independent of male control.


Woman's Legacy

Woman's Legacy

Author: Bettina Aptheker

Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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"In this collection of essays written from a Marxist and feminist perspective, Bettina Aptheker focuses on the history of Afro-American women. According the Aptheker, the oppression of Afro-Americans has been central to the political economy of the United States. By its very extremity, she suggests, the Black woman's experience clarifies the relationship between class exploitation and sexual oppression"--From jacket flap.


Abolition's Axe

Abolition's Axe

Author: Milton C. Sernett

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2004-02-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780815630227

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Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer, and one of New York's most important abolitionists, this book is the first published history of Green and his attempt to create a model biracial society.


Capitalism Takes Command

Capitalism Takes Command

Author: Michael Zakim

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-02

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0226451097

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Most scholarship on nineteenth-century America’s transformation into a market society has focused on consumption, romanticized visions of workers, and analysis of firms and factories. Building on but moving past these studies, Capitalism Takes Command presents a history of family farming, general incorporation laws, mortgage payments, inheritance practices, office systems, and risk management—an inventory of the means by which capitalism became America’s new revolutionary tradition. This multidisciplinary collection of essays argues not only that capitalism reached far beyond the purview of the economy, but also that the revolution was not confined to the destruction of an agrarian past. As business ceaselessly revised its own practices, a new demographic of private bankers, insurance brokers, investors in securities, and start-up manufacturers, among many others, assumed center stage, displacing older elites and forms of property. Explaining how capital became an “ism” and how business became a political philosophy, Capitalism Takes Command brings the economy back into American social and cultural history.


Women, Race, & Class

Women, Race, & Class

Author: Angela Y. Davis

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-06-29

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0307798496

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From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the women’s liberation movement and the tangled knot of oppression facing Black women. “Angela Davis is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She should be heard.”—The New York Times Angela Davis provides a powerful history of the social and political influence of whiteness and elitism in feminism, from abolitionist days to the present, and demonstrates how the racist and classist biases of its leaders inevitably hampered any collective ambitions. While Black women were aided by some activists like Sarah and Angelina Grimke and the suffrage cause found unwavering support in Frederick Douglass, many women played on the fears of white supremacists for political gain rather than take an intersectional approach to liberation. Here, Davis not only contextualizes the legacy and pitfalls of civil and women’s rights activists, but also discusses Communist women, the murder of Emmitt Till, and Margaret Sanger’s racism. Davis shows readers how the inequalities between Black and white women influence the contemporary issues of rape, reproductive freedom, housework and child care in this bold and indispensable work.


Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870

Women's Rights Emerges Within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870

Author: Kathryn Kish Sklar

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2000-06-17

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780312228194

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Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed guide to the emergence of the women's rights movement within the anti-slavery activism of the 1830s. A 60-page introductory essay traces the cause of women's rights from Angelina and Sarah Grimké's campaign against slavery through the development of a full-fledged women's rights movement in the 1840s and 1850s. A rich collection of over 50 documents includes diary entries, letters, and speeches from the Grimkés, Maria Stewart, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Theodore Weld, Frances Harper, Sojourner Truth, and others.


Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights

Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights

Author: Pamela Slotte

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-09-11

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1107107644

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Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.


The Road to Seneca Falls

The Road to Seneca Falls

Author: Judith Wellman

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0252092821

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Feminists from 1848 to the present have rightly viewed the Seneca Falls convention as the birth of the women's rights movement in the United States and beyond. In The Road To Seneca Falls, Judith Wellman offers the first well documented, full-length account of this historic meeting in its contemporary context. The convention succeeded by uniting powerful elements of the antislavery movement, radical Quakers, and the campaign for legal reform under a common cause. Wellman shows that these three strands converged not only in Seneca Falls, but also in the life of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It is this convergence, she argues, that foments one of the greatest rebellions of modern times. Rather than working heavy-handedly downward from their official "Declaration of Sentiments," Wellman works upward from richly detailed documentary evidence to construct a complex tapestry of causes that lay behind the convention, bringing the struggle to life. Her approach results in a satisfying combination of social, community, and reform history with individual and collective biographical elements. The Road to Seneca Falls challenges all of us to reflect on what it means to be an American trying to implement the belief that "all men and women are created equal," both then and now. A fascinating story in its own right, it is also a seminal piece of scholarship for anyone interested in history, politics, or gender.