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13) Press portrayals of women politicians, 1870s-2000s: from "lunatic" Woodhull to "polarizing" Palin
Author
Publisher
Lexington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks at the far-reaching intellectual achievements of female thinkers and activists like Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Fannie Barrier Williams, Pauli...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This project examines New Negro womanhood in Washington, DC through various examples of African American women challenging white supremacy, intra-racial sexism, and heteropatriarchy. Treva Lindsey defines New Negro womanhood as a mosaic, authorial, and constitutive individual and collective identity inhabited by African American women seeking to transform themselves and their communities through demanding autonomy and equality for African American...
Author
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1945, four African American female privates who were members of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) participated in a strike at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, and opted to take a court martial rather than accept discriminatory work assignments. As the army prepared for the court-martial and civil rights activists investigated the circumstances, competing commentaries in African American and mainstream newspapers ignited a passionate public response across...
