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The Life And Death Of Ryan White - Aids And Inequality In America

by Paul M. Renfro

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 In the 1980s, as HIV/AIDS ravaged queer communities and communities of color in the United States and beyond, a straight white teenager named Ryan White emerged as the face of the epidemic. Analyzing his struggle and celebrity, Paul M. Renfroâ€™s powerful biography grapples with the contested meanings of Ryanâ€™s life, death, and afterlives.
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Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth-Century America

by Kate Haulman

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 In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion - both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment - linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.
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Liberated Threads - Black Women, Style, And The Global Politics Of Soul

by Tanisha C. Ford

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 Explores how and why black women in places as far-flung as New York, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg incorporated style and beauty culture into their activism. Focusing on the emergence of the "soul style" movement - represented in clothing, jewelry, hairstyles, and more - Liberated Threads shows that black women's fashion choices became galvanizing symbols of gender and political liberation.
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Island Queens And Mission Wives - How Gender And Empire Remade Hawai'I'S Pacific World

by Jennifer Thigpen

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 In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this shift by focusing on two groups of women: missionary wives and high-ranking Hawaiian women.
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Archives Of Dispossession - Recovering The Testimonios Of Mexican American Herederas, 1848-1960

by Karen R. Roybal

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 Drawing on a diverse source base - legal land records, personal letters, and literature - Karen Roybal locates voices of Mexican American women in the Southwest to show how they fought against the erasure of their rights, both as women and as landowners. Woven throughout Roybal's analysis are these women's testimonios - their stories focusing on inheritance, property rights, and shifts in power.
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Crescent City Girls - The Lives Of Young Black Women In Segregated New Orleans

by Lakisha Michelle Simmons

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 What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives.
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How Am I To Be Heard? - Letters Of Lillian Smith

by Lillian Smith

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 This volume presents a portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), a leading southern white liberal of the mid-20th century. The author has selected 145 of Smith's 1500 extant letters for the book, with subjects including her lesbian relationship with Paula Snelling.
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Struggle For Equal Adulthood - Gender, Race, Age, And The Fight For Citizenship In Antebellum America

by Corinne T. Field

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 Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America
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Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth-Century America

by Kate Haulman

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 In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion - both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment - linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux.
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Searching For Scientific Womanpower - Technocratic Feminism And The Politics Of National Security, 1940-1980

by Laura Micheletti Puaca

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 This compelling history of what Laura Micheletti Puaca terms "technocratic feminism" traces contemporary feminist interest in science to the World War II and early Cold War years. During a period when anxiety about America’s supply of scientific personnel ran high and when open support for women’s rights generated suspicion, feminist reformers routinely invoked national security rhetoric and scientific "manpower" concerns in their efforts to advance women’s education and employment. Despite the limitations of this strategy, it laid the groundwork for later feminist reforms in both science and society. The past and present manifestations of technocratic feminism also offer new evidence of what has become increasingly recognized as a "long women’s movement."<br/><br/>Drawing on an impressive array of archival collections and primary sources, Puaca brings to light the untold story of an important but largely overlooked strand of feminist activism. This book reveals much about the history of American feminism, the politics of national security, and the complicated relationship between the two.
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Myth Of Seneca Falls - Memory And The Women''S Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898

by Lisa Tetrault

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 Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
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Mobilizing New York - Aids, Antipoverty, And Feminist Activism

by Tamar W. Carroll

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 Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs from post-World War II New York City, Carroll shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organization Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty. Highlighting the little-known National Congress of Neighborhood Women, she reveals the significant participation of working-class white ethnic women and women of color in New York City’s feminist activism. Finally, Carroll traces the partnership between the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Women’s Health Action Mobilization (WHAM!), showing how gay men and feminists collaborated to create a supportive community for those affected by the AIDS epidemic, to improve health care, and to oppose homophobia and misogyny during the culture wars of the 1980s and 1990s. Carroll contends that social policies that encourage the political mobilization of marginalized groups and foster coalitions across identity differences are the most effective means of solving social problems and realizing democracy.
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Made From This Earth - American Women And Nature

by Vera Norwood

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 The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms. In Made From This Earth, Vera Norwood explores the relationship of women to the natural environment through the work of writers, illustrators, landscape and garden designers, ornithologists, botanists, biologists, and conservationists.
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Doing Literary Business - American Women Writers In The Nineteenth Century

by Susan Coultrap-Mcquin

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 Investigates the reasons for women's literary professionalism in the nineteenth century, highlighting the experiences of E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gail Hamilton, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. Coultrap-McQuin examines the cultural milieu of women writers, the ideals of the literary marketplace, and the characteristics of women's literary activities.
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Ladies, Women, And Wenches - Choice And Constraint In Antebellum Charleston And Boston

by Jane H. Pease e William H. Pease

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 Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines the lives of all types of women in both cities.
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Forging Freedom - Black Women And The Pursuit Of Liberty In Antebellum Charleston

by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

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 For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom.
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Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun - The Story Of Uso Hostesses During World War Ii

by Meghan K. Winchell

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 Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun: The Story of USO Hostesses during World War II
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Company He Keeps - A History Of White College Fraternities

by Nicholas L. Syrett

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 Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities
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Living The Revolution - Italian Women''S Resistance And Radicalism In New York City, 1880-1945

by Jennifer Guglielmo

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 Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
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Pauli Murray And Caroline Ware - Forty Years Of Letters In Black And White

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 In 1942, Pauli Murray, a young black woman from North Carolina studying law at Howard University, visited a constitutional law class taught by Caroline Ware, one of the nation's leading historians. A friendship and a correspondence began, lasting until Murray's death in 1985. This title explores the cross-race friendship of two feminist activists.
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Telling Histories - Black Women Historians In The Ivory Tower

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 Contains 17 personal narratives by leading black women historians at various stages in their careers. The essays in this book show how - first as graduate students and then as professional historians - they entered and navigated the realm of higher education, a world concerned with and dominated by whites and men.
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Talk With You Like A Woman - African American Women, Justice, And Reform In New York, 1890-1935

by Cheryl D. Hicks

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 Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
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Terror In The Heart Of Freedom - Citizenship, Sexual Violence, And The Meaning Of Race In The Postemancipation South

by Hannah Rosen

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 The meaning of race in the antebellum southern United States was anchored in the racial exclusivity of slavery and full citizenship. The author explains how heated debates over interracial marriage were also attempts by whites to undermine African American men's demands for suffrage and a voice in public affairs.
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Conceiving The Future - Pronatalism, Reproduction, And The Family In The United States, 1890-1938

by Laura L. Lovett

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 Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, this work shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. Contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, and rural studies, it sheds light on the rhetoric of ""family values.
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