Women's Activist Organizing in US History: A University of Illinois Press Anthology

This anthology highlights the activism of women in the United States over the past two hundred years, addressing issues such as racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality. It explores the challenges and strategies of women's organizations and the contributions of classic and contemporary texts.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 12 April 2022
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Women in the United States have organized themselves around a unique set of needs, skills, and concerns. The fact that race, class, sexuality, and ethnicity shaped their strategies and methods is just as significant as women acting on their own behalf. This authoritative anthology presents some of the powerful work and ideas about activism published in the acclaimed series Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History. Assembled to commemorate the series' thirty-fifth anniversary, the collection looks at two hundred years of labor, activist, legal, political, and community organizing by women against racism, misogyny, white supremacy, and inequality. The authors confront how the multiple identities of an organization's members presented challenging dilemmas and share the histories of how women created change by working against inequitable social and structural systems.

Insightful and provocative, Womens Activist Organizing in US History draws on both classic texts and recent bestsellers to reveal the breadth of activism by women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contributors: Daina Ramey Berry, Melinda Chateauvert, Tiffany M. Gill, Nancy A. Hewitt, Treva B. Lindsey, Anne Firor Scott, Charissa J. Threat, Anne M. Valk, Lara Vapnek, and Deborah Gray White

Weight: 448g
Dimension: 234 x 155 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252086410