Visible Women

New Essays on American Activism

Author: Edited by Nancy A. Hewitt and Suzanne Lebsock

Rediscovering public and political action by women

Paper – $49

978-0-252-06333-6

Publication Date

Paperback: 01/01/1993

Series: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History

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About the Book

In this collection, fifteen leading historians of women and American history explore women's political action from 1830 to the present. Together, their contributions illustrate the tremendous scope and racial, ethnic, and class diversity of women's public activism while also clarifying various conceptual issues. Essays include an analysis of ideologies and strategies; suffrage militance in 1870s; ideas for a feminist approach to public life; labor feminism in the urban South; women's activism in Tampa, Florida; black women and economic nationalism; black women's clubs; the YMCA's place in the community; the role of Southern churchwomen in racial reform and transformation; and other topics.

About the Author

Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s and editor of No Permanent Waves: Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism. Suzanne Lebsock is Emerita Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of A Murder in Virginia: Southern Justice on Trial and The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860.

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"Establishes important links between citizenship, race, and gender following the Reconstruction amendments and the Dawes Act of 1887."--Sharon Hartmann Strom, American Historical Review