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All Bound Up Together

Jones, Martha S

2009,2007,2014

Overview

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars.All Bound Up Togetherexplores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, through the nineteenth century, the \"woman question\" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.Unlike white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black women, Jones explains, often organized within already existing institutions--churches, political organizations, mutual aid societies, and schools. Covering three generations of black women activists, Jones demonstrates that their approach was not unanimous or monolithic but changed over time and took a variety of forms, from a woman's right to control her body to her right to vote. Through a far-ranging look at politics, church, and social life, Jones demonstrates how women have helped shape the course of black public culture.

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press,University of North Carolina Press
• Subject: 19th century / African American Studies / African American women / African American women -- History -- 19th century / African American women -- Social conditions -- 19th century / African American women political activists / African American women political activists -- History -- 19th century / African Americans / African Americans -- Politics and government -- 19th century / African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century / Community life / Community life -- United States -- History -- 19th century / Ethnic Studies / Feminism / Feminism -- United States -- History -- 19th century / History / Politics and government / Race relations / Sex role / Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century / Social conditions / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / United States / United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century / Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century / Women's Studies / Women’ srights
• ISBN: 0807858455, 9780807858455, 9780807831526, 0807831522