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  • Adams, James Eli  (1)
  • Brown, Nikki
  • Gabaccia, Donna R.
  • Bloomington : Indiana University Press  (3)
  • History  (3)
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  • 1
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 9780253348043 , 0253348048
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 194 p) , ill , 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Blacks in the diaspora
    Parallel Title: Print version Private Politics and Public Voices : Black Women's Activism from World War I to the New Deal
    DDC: 305.48/896073009041
    Keywords: World War, 1914-1918 Social aspects ; African American women political activists History 20th century ; Patriotism History 20th century ; African American women History 20th century ; Middle class women History 20th century ; Social service History 20th century ; World War, 1914-1918 African Americans ; World War, 1914-1918 Women ; African American women ; History ; 20th century ; African American women political activists ; History ; 20th century ; Middle class women ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Patriotism ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; Social service ; United States ; History ; 20th century ; World War, 1914-1918 ; African Americans ; World War, 1914-1918 ; Women ; Electronic books ; United States Social conditions 1918-1932 ; United States Race relations 20th century ; History
    Abstract: This political history of middle-class African American women during World War I focuses on their patriotic activity and social work. Nearly 200,000 African American men joined the Allied forces in France. At home, black clubwomen raised more than 125 million in wartime donations and assembled "comfort kits" for black soldiers, with chocolate, cigarettes, socks, a bible, and writing materials. Given the hostile racial climate of the day, why did black women make considerable financial contributions to the
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Patriotism and Jim Crow; 2. Investigations of the SouthernBlack Working Class; 3. Volunteering with the Red Crossand the YWCA; 4. Supporting Black Doughboys in France; 5. Gender Relations and the New Negro; 6. National Party Politics throughthe Depression; Notes; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 9780253069054 , 025306905X
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 239 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sexualities in Victorian Britain
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    Keywords: 1800-1899 ; Geschichte 1832-1902 ; Sex customs History 19th century ; Sexual ethics History 19th century ; Sexual Behavior history ; Vie sexuelle - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Morale sexuelle - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 19e siècle ; Sex customs ; Sexual ethics ; Seksualiteit ; Victoriaanse tijd ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General ; History ; Great Britain ; Englisch ; Sex customs -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Sexual ethics -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
    Abstract: An introduction to Victorian sexualities and a survey of current critical methods, these essays emphasize the remarkable variety of Victorian sexuality and the intricate particularity of sexual identities that shaped the way the Victorians thought about themselves. This absorbing collection will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of meaning that it has generated
    Description / Table of Contents: Dinah's blush, Maggie's arm : class, gender, and sexuality in George Eliot's early novels / Margaret Homans -- "Vitiated air" : the polluted city and female sexuality in Dombey and son and Bleak house / Deborah Epstein Nord -- Clitoridectomy, circumcision, and the politics of sexual pleasure in mid-Victorian Britain / Ornella Moscucci -- Darwin and the anthropologists : sexual selection and its discontents / Rosemary Jann -- Perversion, degeneration, and the death drive / Jonathan Dollimore -- Coventry Patmore and the womanly mission of the mid-Victorian poet / Joseph Bristow -- Reimagining masculinity in Victorian criticism : Swinburne and Pater / Thaïs E. Morgan -- When the soul had hips : six animadversions on psyche and gender in nineteenth-century poetry / Herbert F. Tucker -- Turn-of-the-century male impersonation : rewriting the romance plot / Martha Vicinus -- "I am the woman for spirit" : a working woman's gender transgression in Victorian London / Camilla Townsend.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press | New York, NY : JSTOR
    ISBN: 9780253069177 , 0253069173
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (192 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949- From the other side
    DDC: 305.488
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1820-1990 ; Einwanderin ; Arbeitsbedingungen ; Ausländerin ; Women immigrants History ; Women foreign workers History ; Immigrantes - États-Unis - Histoire ; Travailleuses étrangères - États-Unis - Histoire ; Women foreign workers ; Women immigrants ; Vrouwen ; Sekseverschillen ; Immigranten ; Women immigrants - United States - History ; Women foreign workers - United States - History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General ; History ; USA ; United States ; USA
    Abstract: This long-needed study of women "from the other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to the United Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities that characterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations and the present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S. expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallels between the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-born racial minorities.--...
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-186) and index
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