ISBN: 9780520229655

In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new … Mehr…

In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimké, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women's rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, the Joan of Arc of the coalfields, one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America's most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York's Bowery for more than forty years. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Social Sciences>Womens Studies>Womens Studies, University of California Press Core >1 >T<

2002, ISBN: 9780520229655

University of California Press, Taschenbuch, 364 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-10-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1 kg, Genderstudies, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Frauen, Gemein… Mehr…

University of California Press, Taschenbuch, 364 Seiten, Publiziert: 2002-10-07T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1 kg, Genderstudies, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Frauen, Gemeinschaften & Kultur, Biografien & Erinnerungen, USA, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, University of California Press, 2002<