Unequal sisters
Subtitle: an inclusive reader in U.S. women's history
By: edited by Vicki L. Ruiz with Ellen Carol Dubois.
Contributors: Ruíz, Vicki.; DuBois, Ellen Carol, 1947-
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780415958400; 9780415958417
Subjects: Women -- United States -- History -- Cross-cultural studies; Sex role -- United States -- History -- Cross-cultural studies; Minority women -- United States -- History; African American women -- History
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-613) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Race and the politics of identity in U.S. feminism / Estelle B. Freedman; title: 2. Bodies in motion : lesbian and transsexual histories / Nan Alamilla Boyd; title: 3. Teaching the differences among women from a historical perspective : rethinking race and gender as social categories / Tessie Liu; title: 4. "This evil extends especially to the feminine sex" : negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, 1700-1846/ James F. Brooks; title: 5. "Deluders and seducers of each other" : gender and the changing nature of resistance / Jennifer L. Morgan; title: 6. The pleasures of resistance : enslaved women and body politics in the plantation south, 1830-1861 / Stephanie M.H. Camp; title: 7. Race, culture and justice in Mexican Los Angeles / Miroslava Chávez-García; title: 8. To earn her daily bread : housework and antebellum working-class subsistence / Jeanne Boydston; title: 9. The feminized civil war : gender, Northern popular literature, and the memory of war, 1861-1900 / Alice Fahs; title: 10. To catch the vision of freedom : reconstructing Southern Black women's political history, 1865-1880 / Elsa Barkley Brown; title: 11. "To dark to be angels" : the class system among the Cherokees at the female seminary / Devon A. Mihesuah; title: 12. The practice of everyday colonialism : indigenous women at work in the hop fields and tourist industry of Puget Sound / Paige Raibmon; title: 13. Black and white visions of welfare : women's welfare activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon; title: 14. Migrations and destinations : reflections on the histories of U.S. immigrant women / Donna R. Gabaccia, Vicki L. Ruiz; title: 15. The social awakening of Chinese American women as reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 / Judy Yung; title: 16. Working women, class relations, and suffrage militance : Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York woman's suffrage movement, 1894-1909 / Ellen Carol Dubois; title: 17. In politics to stay : black women leaders and party politics in the 1920s / Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; title: 18. Miscegenation law, court cases, and ideologies of "race" in twentieth-century America / Peggy Pascoe; title: 19. Sexual geography and gender economy : the furnished-room districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 / Joanne Meyerowitz; title: 20. Making faces : the cosmetics industry and the cultural construction of gender, 1890-1930 / Kathy Peiss; title: 21. "Star struck" : acculturation, adolescence, and Mexican American women, 1920-1950 / Vicki L. Ruiz; title: 22. Japanese American women and the creation of urban Nisei culture in the 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto; title: 23. In search of unconventional women : histories of Puerto Rican women in religious vocations before mid-century / Virginia Sánchez Korrol; title: 24. "We are that mythical thing called the public" : militant housewives during the Great Depression / Annelise Orleck; title: 25. Raiz Fuerte : oral history and Mexicana farmworkers / Devra Anne Weber; title: 26. From servitude to service work : historical continuities in the racial division of  paid reproductive labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn; title: 27. Open secrets : memory, imagination, and the refashioning of Southern identity / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall; title: 28. Was mom Chung a "sister lesbian"? : Asian American gender experimentation / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu; title: 29. Telling performances : jazz history remembered and remade by the women in the band / Sherrie Tucker; title: 30. Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique : labor union radicalism and  feminism in Cold War America / Daniel Horowitz; title: 31. Non mothers as bad mothers : infertility and the "maternal instinct" / Elaine Tyler May; title: 32. Polishing brown diamonds : African American women, popular magazines, and the advent of modeling in early Postwar America / Laila Haidarali; title: 33. "More than a lady" : Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and black women's leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee / Cynthia Griggs Fleming; title: 34. Towards trans-Pacific social justice : women and protest in Filipino American history / Catherine Ceniza Choy; title: 35. Migrant melancholia : emergent discourses of Mexican migrant traffic in transnational space / Alicia Schmidt Camacho; title: 36. Silencing religiosity : secularity and Arab American feminisms / Lara Deeb; title: Selected bibliographies; title: African American women / compiled by Zakiya R. Adair; title: Asian and Pacific Islander American women / compiled by Shirley Jennifer Lim; title: Latinas / compiled by Mary Ann Villarreal; title: Native American women / compiled by Annette L. Reed.