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We are still here : Afghan women on courage, freedom, and the fight to be heard
Shahalimi has compiled the voices of 13 influential Afghan women who reflect on their country's past, their own upbringing, and their work to empower girls and women.
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It's Our Movement Now
Profiles of influential Black women activists at a
historic moment
This volume offers a panoramic view of Black feminist politics
through the stories of a remarkable cross section of Black women
who attended the 1977 National Women's Conference. These women
advocated for civil and women's rights but also for accessibility,
lesbians, sex workers, welfare recipients, laborers, and
children.
The women featured in this book include icons Coretta Scott King
and Michelle Cearcy, a teenager who served as a torchbearer at the
conference. Contributors offer insights into the lives of Gloria
Scott, Dorothy Height, Freddie Groomes-McLendon, and Jeffalyn
Johnson. The profiles include activist organizers Georgia McMurray,
Barbara Smith, Johnnie Tillmon, Addie Wyatt, and Florynce Kennedy.
The hard-won achievements of politicians are examined and
celebrated, including those of Barbara Jordan, Shirley Chisholm,
Maxine Waters, C. Delores Tucker, the first Black female secretary
of state for Pennsylvania, and Yvonne Burke, one of the first Black
women elected to Congress and the first representative to give
birth while serving. The final profiles cover Clara McClaughlin,
reporter Melba Tolliver, and photojournalist Diana Mara Henry, who
shared the details of the conference and the continual work being
done by Black women with others through various media channels.
This book places the diversity of Black women's experiences and
their leadership at the center of the history of the women's
movement.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Teen trailblazers : 30 fearless girls who changed the world before they were 20
This books tells the stories of 30 awe-inspiring young women, from historical groundbreakers like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, and Anne Frank to history's quiet heroines.
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Refounding Democracy Through Intersectional Activism
In Refounding Democracy through Intersectional Activism , Wendy Sarvasy recovers the unacknowledged Progressive Era social democratic feminist refounders who used collective political agency to reshape the body politic.
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The book of gutsy women : favorite stories of courage and resilience
Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea share the stories of the gutsy women who have inspired them, women with the courage to stand up to the status quo, ask hard questions, and get the job done.
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Fannie Barrier Williams
Born shortly before the Civil War, activist and reformer Fannie Barrier Williams (1855-1944) became one of the most prominent educated African American women of her generation. Hendricks shows how Williams became raced for the first time in early adulthood, when she became a teacher in Missouri and Washington, D.C., and faced the injustices of racism and the stark contrast between the lives of freed slaves and her own privileged upbringing in a western New York village. She carried this new awareness to Chicago, where she joined forces with black and predominantly white women's clubs, the Unitarian church, and various other interracial social justice organizations to become a prominent spokesperson for Progressive economic, racial, and gender reforms during the transformative period of industrialization. By highlighting how Williams experienced a set of freedoms in the North that were not imaginable in the South, this clearly-written, widely accessible biography expands how we understand intellectual possibilities, economic success, and social mobility in post-Reconstruction America.
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Slum Travelers
Late-nineteenth-century Britain saw the privileged classes forsake society balls and gatherings to turn their considerable resources to investigating and relieving poverty. By the 1890s at least half a million women were involved in philanthropy, particularly in London. Slum Travelers, edited, annotated, and with a superb introduction by Ellen Ross, collects a fascinating array of the writings of these \"lady explorers,\" who were active in the east, south, and central London slums from around 1870 until the end of World War I. Contributors range from the well known, including Annie Besant, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Beatrice Webb (then Potter), to the obscure. The collection reclaims an important group of writers whose representations of urban poverty have been eclipsed by better-known male authors such as Charles Dickens and Jack London.
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Stories for kids who dare to be different : true tales of amazing people who stood up and stood out
Profiles over seventy people who broke the rules and smashed stereotypes, including such figures as Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, and Sally Ride.
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Black Woman Reformer
During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching. Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a \"black lady reformer\"-a role American society denied her-and assert her right to defend her race from abroad. Based on extensive archival research conducted in the United States and Britain,Black Woman Reformerby Sarah Silkey explores Wells's 1893-94 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century transatlantic reform networks and debates about the role of extralegal violence in American society.
Through her speaking engagements, newspaper interviews, and the efforts of her British allies, Wells altered the framework of public debates on lynching in both Britain and the United States. No longer content to view lynching as a benign form of frontier justice, Britons accepted Wells's assertion that lynching was a racially motivated act of brutality designed to enforce white supremacy. As British criticism of lynching mounted, southern political leaders desperate to maintain positive relations with potential foreign investors were forced to choose whether to publicly defend or decry lynching. Although British moral pressure and media attention did not end lynching, the international scrutiny generated by Wells's campaigns transformed our understanding of racial violence and made American communities increasingly reluctant to embrace lynching.
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