ISBN:
9780807888902
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (328 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.48/896073009034
Keywords:
African Americans Social conditions 19th century
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Community life History 19th century
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Sex role History 19th century
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Women's rights History 19th century
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African American women political activists History 19th century
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African American women History 19th century
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African American women Social conditions 19th century
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Feminism History 19th century
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African Americans Politics and government 19th century
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African American women ; History ; 19th century
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African American women ; Social conditions ; 19th century
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African American women political activists ; History ; 19th century
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African Americans ; Politics and government ; 19th century
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Feminism ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Sex role ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Women's rights ; United States ; History ; 19th century
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Electronic books
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United States Race relations 19th century
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History
Abstract:
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, through the nineteenth century, the "woman question" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.Unlike white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black women, Jones explains, often organized within already existing institutions--churches, political organizations, mutual aid societies, and schools. Covering three generations of black women activists, Jones demonstrates that their approach was not unanimous or monolithic but changed over time and took a variety of forms, from a woman's right to control her body to her right to vote. Through a far-ranging look at politics, church, and social life, Jones demonstrates how women have helped shape the course of black public culture.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Female Influence Is Powerful: Respectability, Responsibility, and Setting the Terms of the Woman Question Debate -- Chapter Two: Right Is of No Sex: Reframing the Debate through the Rights of Women -- Chapter Three: Not a Woman's Rights Convention: Remaking Public Culture in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford -- Chapter Four: Something Very Novel and Strange: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Remaking of African American Public Culture -- Chapter Five: Make Us a Power: Churchwomen's Politics and the Campaign for Women's Rights -- Chapter Six: Too Much Useless Male Timber: The Nadir, the Woman's Era, and the Question of Women's Ordination -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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